Ubisoft DRM Authentication Servers Go Down
You can view the Ubisoft forum rage here.
I’m sure we all saw this coming. It seems as if Unisoft’s DRM authentication servers have gone down. What’s this mean? For the past 16 hours, users who legitimately purchased Assassins Creed 2 are unable to play the game, at all. Needless to say this has angered many Assassins Creed 2 owners. When Ubisoft’s new DRM system was announced, this was one of the top concerns with it. Assassins Creed 2 has been out for no longer than a week and is already having severe issues. With an 86% uptime, Ubisoft’s DRM servers have the lowest uptime percentage of any server I’ve ever seen. Ubisoft is learning first hand why people pirate their games, especially games with excessive methods of copy protection. More…
Google To Offer 1Gbps Fiber Optic Internet To Homes
Yep, you heard it right, 1 Gigabit per second. You can read the official details from Google here. Google is beginning to roll out fiber optic lines right to peoples homes in hopes to make the internet better and faster for everyone. Be sure to nominate your area by filling out the form here! Most of us have a cable internet connection of some sort. Furthermore, most of us have an slow, overpriced internet connection. To the left is a speed test of my residential internet connection. 25Mb/s down and 2Mb/s up. Sure, that might seem reasonable (at least the download speed, maybe not the awful upload speed), but Google plans to give customers’ speeds up to 40 times faster than that! More…
iPad vs HP Mini Netbook
When you compare, there’s no comparison
- AT&T
Ultimatrix pointed out where Steve Jobs compared the iPad to a Netbook, so you can stop posting comments about comparing two completely different devices.
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The problem is, Netbooks aren’t better at anything
- Steve Jobs
Well Steve, let’s see what the Netbook is better at.
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Comparing CDN Performance (Part 2)
Last week I wrote an article comparing Amazon S3 and Cloud Front to Rackspace Cloud Files. Since then I have gotten additional requests to compare more content delivery networks. The following is a comparison of Amazon Cloud Front, Rackspace Cloud Files, SimpleCDN, and GoGrid CDN. I tried to cover as many bases as I could. Please let me know if I missed anything.
Comparing CDN Performance
View Part 2 Here
More and more CDN providers are appearing with competing prices and features. Here I’m going to compare Amazon Cloud Front, Rackspace Cloud Files, and Amazon S3.
First off, Amazon S3 isn’t really a CDN per se, but I’ve ran across quite a few sites comparing Rackspace Cloud to S3, which isn’t a fair comparison. Amazon S3 does, however, have its own strong points which we will get into later.
Response Time
We will start by taking a look at the response time for the three services over a period of 1 month
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- Response time over 1 month for Amazon S3
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- Response time over 1 month for Amazon Cloud Front
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- Response time over 1 month for Rackspace Cloud Files
The average response time for Amazon S3 was 819ms which is pretty bad. However, S3 was never really meant to be a CDN, this is what their Cloud Front service is for. After looking at the Cloud Front average response time we can see it to be 310ms, a much better response time. And then there’s Rackspace Cloud Files, coming in at 210ms, which is even better. Rackspace Cloud Files uses Limelight for their CDN solution which is one of the industry leaders in content delivery, up there with Akamai. I would have done a comparison to Akamai, however I lack the funds to even get close to that. Rackspace Cloud makes it easy to be able to use the “big guys” infrastructure without having to pay the big price. More…