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March 2010 |
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In This Issue Great Deal on Cabinets A Great Deal on New Colocation Cabinets New and current colocation customers can now order one-year-term, fifteen-amp cabinets with a 100Mb drop for only $600 a month. Standard-depth cabinets (30 inches) are available for immediate use in all Fremont facilities while new extended-depth cabinets (36 inches) are available in Suite 1200, part of our Fremont 2 data center.
Contact your HE sales representative today to find out more! Submit IPv4 Address Requests Now As IPv4 runs out, we anticipate the allocation guidelines becoming more strict and allowing fewer IPs per organization. Contact Hurricane Electric now if your business or organization has an immediate need for IPv4 address space. Please provide justification with your request. YouTube Goes Native! (IPv6, that is.) Google's YouTube has joined the growing list of Internet content providers enabling native mode IPv6 traffic. Hurricane Electric Helpful Hints For Our Colocation Customers Careful positioning of equipment in rack - Heat rises. That's a fact we all know and understand, but it's a fact that is often forgotten when servers are placed in a rack. Today's servers pack a lot of hardware into ever-smaller enclosures and increasing care must be taken to ensure the airflow in the cabinet is adequate. We recommend using empty vertical space between pieces of equipment to maximize airflow, with equipment generating the most heat placed toward the bottom of the cabinet. Care should also be taken not to block the vent at the top of the cabinet, as that is the optimum path for the escape of warm air.
In our new colocation Suite 1200 we have implemented a hot and cold aisle arrangement. Cold air from the air conditioners is forced through one aisle while an updraft removes hot air on the next. You should position your equipment so that the intake fans are facing the cold aisle side and the exhaust fans the hot side.
Meet Alex joined Hurricane Electric in 2002 as a member of the support staff. In 2007 he became a network engineer. In addition to regular network duties, Alex is responsible for the development and management of the HE IPv6 Tunnel Broker. When not making the world safe for IPv6, Alex is an avid chef and is currently mastering the intricacies of French cuisine. Hurricane Electric Trivia Question
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Hurricane Electric Goes Green Hurricane Electric is doing its part to reduce energy consumption. Suite 1200, our new 24,000 square-foot colocation floor, makes use of a state-of-the art power deployment system, bringing electricity where it's needed with maximum efficiency. In addition, our new McQuay Maverick II Rooftop™ HVAC system boasts VFDs, powered exhaust and a 100% economizer mode. Combined, these two new systems reduce our carbon footprint considerably. As a result, Hurricane Electric has been recently recognized by PG&E as leading the way in maximizing power efficiency for data centers.
"Our energy-efficient infrastructure reduces our carbon footprint," said Benny Ng, Hurricane Electric's Director of Infrastructure. "But it also reduces our energy bills, making our services more cost-competitive."
The facility is outfitted with popular colocation amenities, including 24/7 on-site knowledgeable staff, sophisticated up-flow HVAC systems, and uninterruptible power sources with back-up generators. The facility also contains a state-of-the-art digital-video surveillance system that monitors every entrance, exit, hallway and rack in the facility.
Contact your HE sales representative today to find out how your business can take advantage of this IPv6-enabled, state-of-the-art facility. Getting Ready for IPv6 Setting Up a Tunnel Broker for Your Workplace
Even if the ISP through which you receive Internet service does not yet support IPv6, you can use the free Hurricane Electric Tunnel Broker to connect your IPv6-enabled network to the IPv6 Internet and other IPv6 servers and networks.
How to Use the Hurricane Electric Tunnel Broker
Hurricane Electric and IPv6 Frequently Asked Questions Domain Name Registration and Renewal
Domain name registration is a complexity encountered when first setting up a web site and then, long after the details have been forgotten, dealt with again when the registration for the domain expires and both web and email services stop working.
How to find out when your domain name expires:
Domain name information can be found using a 'whois' function. All domain registrars offer this as well as many web sites and it can even be run from a Linux or Mac OS command line. While the information returned by whois varies, it always contains the date the domain was originally registered and the date on which it expires.
What to do if your domain name has expired:
You must contact your domain name registrar and pay the overdue renewal fee. This can be done with a credit card via a web site or over the telephone. Once the fee has been paid, your domain name will begin functioning again shortly, sometimes within a few minutes but no longer than 24 hours later.
Hurricane Electric Technical Brief Practice Safe Scripting The Problem:
Rule One: Finish the installation. It's tempting to ignore the last step in an installation script. You know the one. It's where the user is told to change the permissions on this folder or that folder and to remove the install script. After all, your shopping cart program or image gallery is working and it's much more fun to begin working with that instead of finishing those mundane cleanup tasks. But - this is often how hackers get in. Because the install script is still there and because the folders often remain writeable by anyone, script kiddies can find their way in.
Rule Two: Don't put "Powered by" on your home page. Yes, it's nice to give credit where credit is due, but that just makes it easier for the hackers who use search engines to look for web sites using CGI scripts with known vulnerabilities. If you insist on displaying the name of the software then keep the version number vague.
Rule Three: Keep your CGI scripts up-to-date. There is a reason developers release new versions of their scripts. Bugs are fixed, improvements are made and most importantly, security holes are patched. Running an out-of-date CGI script is an invitation to hackers to attack your web site. Be responsible and help Hurricane Electric keep your web site safe.
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