Sigg Bottles - Going Fast

June 26th, 2008 dawhoo

I needed to get a Sigg water bottle to replace a bottle that had been lost. Little did I know how hard these things are to find!  (If you’re looking for the Sigg Maha Ruby, click here for a huge collection on eBay)

I found several retailers in my area that “stock” Sigg water bottles. However, none of the locations actually had any in stock. I drove 60 miles to try and find a store that had the Sigg Water bottle I was looking for and nobody had it. Then, I checked online and after much searching, I found a place online that had the model I needed to replace the one I lost. Hurray, I placed my order. Three days later I get an email telling me they’re out of stock.

Finally, it occured to me that eBay might have some of them and sure enough, eBay had not only a profuse amount, but also a wonderful selection of the Sigg water bottles. But the prices - OMG! The one I needed was selling for $36 plus $9 for shipping!! No way. Thankfully, I found someone with am eBay Buy it now, not only was the price cheaper, but I got exactly what I needed and for less than the auction price that the same model was going for! So, if you’re looking for a good price for a hard to find Sigg water bottle, check out this guys eBay site selling Sigg bottles on eBay. The seller is very nice, has Sigg bottles in stock (for real) and is very professional with order tracking and payments.

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Internet Fire - Oh Noes!

June 3rd, 2008 dawhoo

Are you noticing a slower internet? That may be because of an explosion at The Planet, on of the larger internet hosting facilities in Houston Texas.

All in all, over 9,000 servers were affected by the explosion and fire. While data centers normally can use a backup generator to keep things running, fire officials made the Planet shut down their generators which left nearly 6,000 servers off-line. And when you consider that each server can host nearly a thousand sites, that’s a lot of sites that were off line.

The Planet has restored all but about 3,000 servers at this time and have promised to refund customers who suffered from the down time. All servers are expected to be back online in just a few hours.

This helps underscore the importance of redundant servers and backups. I hope you have a backup of all your website’s data, I know I…. uh, I better get busy

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