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Colo includes a VPS for High Availability, Failover or Backup

Posted on September 24, 2011 by richard

We’ll formalise this on our Plans pages soon, but all our Colo Plans now include a minimum of a 500MB VPS (either KVM or Xen based) within our network, but on different routers, switches and as much a seperate path … Continue reading →

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@ghsoftware know the enterpris…

Posted on September 21, 2011 by richard

@ghsoftware know the enterprise software development lifecycle & its #agile / “iterative” software dev methodology wins http://t.co/quz8V89w

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I like this idea of using Mock…

Posted on September 21, 2011 by richard

I like this idea of using Mockups & letting your content drive site design by @workingsoftware. See http://t.co/3yJPlsKP #NetPres

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RT @puppetlabs: Sign up for th…

Posted on September 21, 2011 by richard

RT @puppetlabs: Sign up for the free live stream of #PuppetConf Read the details here: http://t.co/FASambaW #sysadmin #devops

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How to setup Ruby on Rails Hosting using Apache, from Development to Production

Posted on September 20, 2011 by richard

In addition to the ‘development Ruby on Rails’ environment and Appliance VPS product, we’ve recently worked through the software requirements and dependencies of a ‘production’ Ruby on Rails hosting environment and VPS. The following technical information outlines the broad sysadmin … Continue reading →

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Weekly Tweets for 2011-09-18

Posted on September 18, 2011 by richard

#NetPres blog: KVM VPS Available http://t.co/VMdmGrti # #NetPres blog: Backblaze Storage Pods – 1PB in 3/4 of a Rack! http://t.co/BX0xkKjK # Thanks to @mpesce for #Win8 iso download info today, being http://t.co/G5swCg4 & http://t.co/X6VUOtB via http://t.co/JqI1p0Q #NetPres # Groundhog Software … Continue reading →

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Added Torrus to Freeside for ‘bandwidth’ Billing

Posted on September 17, 2011 by richard

We’ve been working with a few instances of our Freeside Appliance VPS & been able to recently install & configure through to billing & usage, customers in Freeside that are billed by their ‘bandwidth’ (eg: Megabits per Second) usage. This … Continue reading →

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KVM VPS Available

Posted on September 16, 2011 by richard

We’ve added to our Virtualisation product range by bringing online recently our first KVM-based VPS Hosting Platform in Sydney, with another being built & expected online in October. This will add to our existing cluster of Xen-based VPS Hosting Platforms … Continue reading →

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Backblaze Storage Pods – 1PB in 3/4 of a Rack!

Posted on September 14, 2011 by richard

This is nectar for an Infrastructure Geek like myself, being data centre-grade Storage Infrastructure, for those of us that are interested in such things! Basically, 1 PetaByte (1000 TB) of redundant customised storage in 3/4 of a Data Centre Rack, … Continue reading →

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Thanks to @mpesce for #Win8 is…

Posted on September 14, 2011 by richard

Thanks to @mpesce for #Win8 iso download info today, being http://t.co/G5swCg4 & http://t.co/X6VUOtB via http://t.co/JqI1p0Q #NetPres

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