Not All Clouds are Created Equal

Our Cloud Technology page will provide a brief explanation of our implementation of Cloud, but I wanted to dig deeper and go into some technical explanations as to what Cloud must contain to be truly considered Cloud. The economics, billing methodologies, compute measurements, deployment models, and provisioning of a customer’s environment can vary—without taking away from the meaning of Cloud—so we’re going to focus on the architecture and key features.

The first and most important requirement of Cloud is the architecture. This is both the front and back end of the infrastructure. Let’s talk about the back end, as this is not what you will see as a consumer, and may only know how your provider does this by asking them. … READ MORE

Unlimited is not Unlimited, but Overselling is not Overloading

You see it everywhere. The “All-You-Can-Eat” buffet, “Unlimited” cell phone plans, “Unlimited” movie rentals, and just about every industry has in some way, shape, or form, “Unlimited”! The big benefit to this is the ease-of-use provided to the customer. No one wants to be bothered with the trouble of reaching the limits they are provided with, so unlimited provides an opportunity to create a sense of simplicity in products to allow the customer to focus on other things.

It’s a known fact that in web hosting, most customers never come close to reaching the resource limits they are allocated. Being in the web hosting business for 12 years I can tell you for sure, very few customers have ever reached their … READ MORE

The First Post

Being the first post, I thought it would be appropriate to talk about the history of the company, what I’ve learned, and why I am making the decisions I am with making InnoScale what it is. Believe it or not, there are still customers here that have been here for all 12 long years so this post is especially for them.

Things sure have changed since our first 4U rack-mount servers back in 1999, which were Dual Pentium III 500’s with floppy drives, full size cdrom’s, and of course a tape drive. But, what good would this be without pictures of one of the original servers. Well, here you go!

Back in 1999, we advertised hosting packages with a whopping 35MB Disk Space, 1GB of transfers, 1 POP3 Email box, and the … READ MORE