To help configure Microsoft SQL Server for the cloud, we’ve prepared some tips.

After creating a server from our Microsoft SQL Server pre-install, you’ll need to install and configure SQL Server. But, before beginning the SQL Server installation, please review Windows Firsts to ensure your Windows server is best configured for Open Hosting.

Effective today, we’ve reduced our CPU pricing across the board by 50% and our bandwidth pricing by 20%.

The calculator has been updated to reflect our new pricing schedule.

Set in motion by an Atlas 5 rocket, and after having been delivered within a mile of the Martian surface by a very beautiful parachute, Curiosity was lowered to the surface of Mars by a crane held aloft by rockets.

If you’re scratching your head, watch these slides.

The London Olympics commands all the attention. And, this happened all of a few days ago. But, around these parts, that at a one-ton, six-wheel, remote control truck rests on the surface of Mars awaiting a command from Earth to discover alien life, is all the news that matters – sorry, Gabby.

Launched in 1982, the same year Blade Runner was released, Minitel prefigured the Internet. The devices were beautiful, ubiquitous, and useful, at least for the French…

As you know, we’ve moved to Connecticut. What follows is an open letter offering our thanks to whomever had the foresight to not ask hosting companies to collect sales tax.

Dear Connecticut,

Thank you for not asking us to collect sales tax from our customers. Aside from the administrative burden, had we been required to collect sales tax, Open Hosting would have been placed at a disadvantage.

From Policy Statement 2006(8) Connecticut Department of Revenue Services, March 23, 2007 (emphasis added):