You should be in India if you have got anything at all to do with hosting. There is not one single web hosting company in the US that doesnt have something to do with India. Be it backend support, server monitoring, billing assitance or anything at all, companies would have tied up with someone in India for help.

So, if you happen to be running such a company in India, what is most suitable for you for internet connectivity? One major problem in India are frequent powercuts. The Electricity department is not good anywhere throughout the country. Corruption, and non maintenance of cables are the only reason. But this situation is changing in several parts of the country. Then again you have got UPS systems installed, if you are in serious business. So power is not something that we  should be worrying about.

BSNL provides you with the worst of services Never go for them. Airtel has got their own trans oceanic cable laid from Chennai to Singapore, so their service is supposed to be very good. Tata Indicom, formerly VSNL too has a good line that is connecting directly somewhere, but there are disruptions in the service. Never make the mistake of getting a connection from Relianc, Hathway is good, but DNS problems occur often.

You need to choose between a leased line and a broad band connection and the data transfer volume that you would require, which would depend on the number of PCs that you might be having at your facility. Instead of getting 1 single 2 Mbps line, you could go for 10×256 kbps lines, which might cost you a bit more, but you will have consistency of data flow to systems without any breakage.

Remember that you would be using a lot of server software to connect to and to monitor remote servers. You need lots and lots of data transfer limit, and a limited 2 Mbps connection would never suffice.

The domain registered with ravi.ms is not up yet. What the fuck? I have been running a hosting company myself for quite some time, and I know that new domains should start showing up the sites almost immediately. This is over 5 hours. Is there a problem with the registry? Or is it with godaddy?

The only problem with godaddy is that if we raise a ticket with them they take atleast 24 hours, and the reply is not always clear, and to solve each issue, it takes minimum 10 days this way. They have a phone number, and if we call them there, they take ages to respond, and there too they dont give a proper reply for anything at all.

Tuesday is a bad day. Last time I booked a domain called ravisgadgets.com with godaddy, and it came with a lot of problems free, and Ihad to cancel that hosting and moved it to hostgator, the domain is still with them this time, instead of going to enom, I went to these fellas, and my domain is not showing up anything. What am I supposed to do now?

I was hoping to set up the email address early enough, as I have already sent the word around that I would be starting to use the new mail box from tomorrow soon as i registered the domain not expecting any such problems.

The electricity department headed by Arcot Veerasamy in India is propagating a strange sort of message these days. To save power, let your Fans run with your AC, and that way the air circulation will be better and therefore your power bills will be low. What a foolish message to speread out. Well, a person induvidually might be smart and intelligent, but collectively, people are dumb. Especially Indians.

When you let the Ceiling Fan running along with the AC, the AC has to take the trouble of cooling the heat produced by the Fan, as well, and the fan’s air flow will be vertical while the ACs airflow will be horizontal, and that would disrupt the airflow completely, and the room will not be evenly cooled, and that will make the thermostat switch malfunction, and thus one part of your room will be really cool while another part would be completely hot.

Doing so would only waste even more electricity. The best way to save electricity is to set the AC at 24 degrees and let it run without switching it off, and thus the room temperature will be maintained in 24, and the AC would not have to take pains in managint the fluctuating temeratures. if you really want to save power, make sure that your room is well insulated and that no air leaks out, and make sure that you do not open or close the doors or windows often when the AC is running.