What’s on the Horizon?
The $1 Fiber Optic Network
Provo City excitedly announced yesterday that Google was taking over their troubled iProvo network. Google has done a respectable job in Kansas City, and I’m sure they will do the same in Provo. My only criticism after hearing this yesterday is that Kansas had to literally give away the farm to install a monopoly over […]
4 Questions to Help you Determine if Cloud Hosting is Right for your SMB
A lot of bootstrap businesses don’t realize that pouring money into on-premise IT infrastructure and staffing right away is often unnecessary—even if they are the next Facebook or Amazon. Cloud technologies can meet the changing needs of small business owners and make it easier to grow IT infrastructure more organically. In this post, I’ll cover […]
An Exciting Field In A Historic Moment
Please note: As of January 1, 2017, XMission no longer sells DSL services. My three year old boy doesn’t understand the concept of broadcast television. I fully admit to being a technophile by hobby as well as trade, and so my house is filled with the latest in digital distribution devices: every television receiver has […]
Qwest, XMission, and DSL
Please note: As of January 1, 2017, XMission no longer sells DSL services. In 1997, XMission first started providing service over Qwest’s DSL. We have literally paid millions of dollars of revenue to Qwest for the privilege, all the while relieving them of the difficult task of providing excellent customer support. In 2008, Qwest launched […]
Introducing Stackable: XMission’s Hosting Service for Developers
For the past two years, members of our research and development team (Jason Hansen, Mike Place, and Eric Waters) have spent their days and nights working on a new premium web hosting service for XMission. Because of their hard work and the direction of our fearless leader, Pete Ashdown, we are very proud to announce […]
Announcing XMission Voice for Business
We are pleased to announce XMission Voice for Business. Currently providing competitive residential voice services, XMission expands the same reliable advantages into the business market. Many businesses hope to lower costs without reducing quality. XMission’s SIP trunking helps you realize substantial savings by replacing expensive PRI lines and long distance plans, all without compromise. No […]
Driving the Internet in Utah, XMission turns sweet 16!
Sixteen years ago today the lights on a router flickered on, and a little known domain named xmission.com went live on the Internet as Utah’s first ISP. A heartfelt thank you to all of our incredible customers who have supported us throughout the years. We can’t wait to see what the future holds for XMission, […]
The challenges of cooling modern data centers
As computers get smaller and more powerful, data centers face greater challenges to keep them cool. Blade servers, like the new Sun 6048 blade system we recently purchased for a next-generation hosting product we’re developing, are at the current bleeding edge of power consumption and heat output. To exacerbate matters, electricity costs continue to rise […]
Flash to the Future
The XMission Research and Development team was in Boston this week, catching a ball game, taking in some local flavor…oh and we went to USENIX. While there, I had the chance to hear from Adrian Cockroft, who is currently leading a performance tuning and research group over at Netflix. Though his presentation was excellent, one […]