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  • Moved to WordPress and new domain!

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    I gave up! This blog was hacked again and the database taken down. As this is no longer my primary blog (and I post here infrequently now) I decided the best course of action would be to simply take it off my server and give it to WordPress.com to host (the chances of it being…

  • CIX on Intruders.tv

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    We held our Open Day in CIX a couple of weeks back. We invited local businesses to come in and have a look at the data centre infrastructure before we closed up all the ducts and hazardous areas. We also invited Intruders.tv to come along and film the event. They did and they published the…

  • Hosting365 back up again?

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    Irish hosting company Hosting365 went dark this morning at around 10:30am according to reports I am receiving. The last time this occurred was last July when there was a fire in a nearby ESB substation if memory serves. I contacted Hosting365’s Marketing Director, Ed Byrne, about this incident and Ed informed me that: We are…

  • Views from the CIX mast

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    We are erecting a 24 metre mast outside our CIX data centre in Cork. I was curious to know what the visibility would be like for our mast’s customers (we will be renting out space on the mast) so yesterday when we had a cherry picker onsite I had the driver lift me 10 metres…

  • BarCamp Dublin on Saturday

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    BarCamp Dublin is on this Saturday (21st April 2007) in the Digital Hub. Registration starts at 09:15 with the talks kicking off at 10:00. There are lots of great speakers lined up to talk on topics as diverse as “Web Usability 101” right through to “Law of Blogs; Blogs of Law”. I’ll be giving a…

  • CIX project

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    The CIX project is hurtling along (CIX is a project to build Cork’s first professional data centre). I have posted photos over on the CIX blog of the mast foundation (160 tonnes of concrete and 5km of rebar steel!), the burying of our data cable ducts and of the installation of our suspended ceiling. If…

  • CIX – the building begins!

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    Building has commenced on the CIX data centre – the first fully redundant data centre in Ireland outside of Dublin! CIX intends to be incredibly energy efficient and has even developed a carbon neutrality strategy document. Watch the CIX blog for more on this. [Disclosure – I am a director of CIX]

  • A carbon neutral data centre?

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    I honestly don’t know if this is possible or if it has been done anywhere but our aim in CIX is to try to build a carbon neutral data centre. Carbon neutral means that the data centre doesn’t create greenhouse gases and add to the climate change problems the planet is experiencing. Data centres are…