Oops almost lost 300 RSS readers in move to Squarespace

February 12, 2011 Dave Ohara

On Monday 5:30p, Feb 7, 2011 I made the switch from TypePad to Squarespace. I had a list of tasks to do. Here is my initial list.

1. Write one blog entry on TypePad saying in the process of moving.
2. Set up SquareSpace account. Move content over.
3. Cancel Chartbeat.
4. Domain switch from typepad to squarespace
5. Setup Feedburner, Google Analytics, Adsense.
6. Keep Typepad up and running for a while.

All of this was OK and up and running in less than an hour. But, the next morning a friend said his RSS reader wasn’t working to my site. I checked Feedburner to see if the feed was working. The RSS feed was working, and I thought I fixed the RSS feed redirect. After another couple of days, I see I had gone from 1,200 RSS subscribers to 900, losing 300 subscribers.

WA state denies stop work request for Microsoft data center based on Diesel Generator emissions, construction project continues

February 12, 2011 Dave Ohara

There is an environmental group in Washington state who wanted to eliminate the use of diesel generators at Microsoft’s data center expansion in Quincy, WA. Microsoft has approval to continue with the expansion.

The group is led by a former Quincy mayor.

The group, led by former Quincy mayor Patty Martin, asked the PCHB to halt construction at the site in northwest Quincy until MYTAPN’s appeal of a Department of Ecology permit allowing the company to install 13 new diesel generators on the site is heard in July.

About Me section

February 12, 2011 Dave Ohara

As part of the move to Squarespace I used the default “about me” location and changed what I wrote.

In the past I had the “about” buried in the UI and gave a resume type of description.

After over three years of blogging on Green Data Centers I decided to change the description. Here is what is now up at about me.

In 2007 I started blogging on the Green Data Center topic. During these years, I have met great people who have a passion for greening the data center. Two guys at the top of the list are Mike Manos and Olivier Sanche. Both were clients and who have been become great friends. Unfortunately, Olivier is no longer with us and passed away suddenly at the age of 41.

Squarespace’s Green Data Center efforts

February 12, 2011 Dave Ohara

The Green Data Center blog, www.greenm3.com is now hosted on SquareSpace. My #1 reason for moving was for a better platform to create a new look for the blog which so far I like. I migrated my content over from TypePad which I’ll write another blog entry about that effort. For this post I want to write about Squarespace’s Green Data Center efforts.

First where is Squarespace? They are in NYC at Peer1 hosting.

PEER 1 hosts the Squarespace data center presence in New York City, providing solid connectivity and power resources. While being a PEER 1 customer, Squarespace's business has grown by 300 percent annually for the last three years and has signed on tens of thousands of subscribing customers.

New Data Center Construction in Pennsylvania?

February 12, 2011 Dave Ohara

A Data Center expert has shared his opinion that Pennsylvania is a great location to build a data center, but for some reason no one wants to build there. Data Center Dynamics covers a possible change with Bethlehem, PA giving permit approval.

City green-lights 300,000-sq-ft Pennsylvania build

Facility to be built for data center services firm

Published 11th February, 2011 by Yevgeniy Sverdlik

This week a US real-estate developer received an approval from local planning authorities to build a 300,000-sq-ft data center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The city’s planning commission approved a preliminary site design on Thursday, according to a WFMZ report.