Pictures

Word of advice. When you get an invitation from a web hosting company to tour their datacenter, don’t forget to bring your camera. You may recall Douglas Hanna from years past as the skilled Clickfire web hosting review critic with a knack for sifting through layers of marketing and legal to get to the good and bad of each hosting provider. Earlier this year, Doug landed the position as CEO of A Small Orange, an Atlanta-based Web hosting enterprise that serves up high-end shared, reseller, and dedicated server offerings. ASO has grown by fulfilling the demand for ”extraordinary customer service and support” for their clients who you might say typically have been around the block when it comes to hosting websites. Web developers, designers and business web hosting types have found a comfortable home there. Doug calls this advanced hosting “high touch” service. You can see why. ASO support touches webmaster tasks that other hosts tend to shy away from such as:

• Installation of Software Apps - a server side program or software update that the client may need.
• Configuration Tuning – MySQL or Apache performance modifications.
• Complex Software Set Ups - Configuration of multiple components to work together without conflicts.

Doug showed me around the A Small Orange Web Hosting office and AtlantaNAP facility. Call me strange, but I love visiting the inside of big datacenters. The isolation, the computing power, the air condition… I don’t quite know what draws me to them.

Look at those clean floors and feel those servers purring. More »

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Can you believe this was taken with an iPhone 3gs camera? This is one of my favorite scenes at the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. Snapped while taking a break from jogging.

Camera Maker: Apple
Camera Model: iPhone 3GS
Image Date: 2010:02:18 17:04:15
Focal Length: 3.9mm
Aperture: f/2.8
Exposure Time: 0.017 s (1/60)
ISO equiv: 72
Metering Mode: Average
Exposure: program (Auto)
White Balance: Auto
Flash Fired: No
Color Space: sRGB
GPS Altitude: 208m

Thanks to Angela Hammond for sending in this montage of images from SMX West – Search Marketing Expo being held March 2-4, 2010. The conference included over 50 sessions on topics close to the heart of search marketers: SEO, PPC, social media, local and mobile search, real-time search, etc from all skill levels.

Thanks to Brent Wheeler who contributed this pic from Adtech New York this month snapped from his iPhone.

Check out the view from inside Host Color’s Amsterdam data center.

Includes several shots of data center racks and a private server cage.

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If you were looking for tech savvy Martians with laptops, you’re in the wrong place. These web hosting datacenter pictures hail from the Green Geeks (review) hosting facility in Chicago, planet earth. Thanks to Trey Gardner for allowing us to publish these gorgeous pics.

This company takes a very serious approach to Green web hosting. According to Trey, the folks at Green Geeks are “working to make the web hosting industry greener through our exposure and competition to non green web hosts. Some independent researchers say by 2020 our industry will be as big of a polluter as the airline industry.”

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More pictures taken by Douglas Hanna when he visited The Planet Hosting’s corporate headquarters in Houston, Texas. As you may have guessed, these images are from the large dedicated server provider’s customer service facility. More »

Douglas Hanna visited The Planet Hosting’s corporate headquarters in Houston, Texas and brought home some great pictures of life in a full fledged web hosting facility including these datacenter images. Check out those beautiful server racks! More »