Yearly Archives: 2010

Spreading the Load

A nice geeky post again πŸ™‚

been looking into different alternatives to VPS.net this last week or 2. i started looking after they experienced there major outage at the UK DC taking all there UK Zones/Clouds out of action for anything from 2 hours to 14 hours in the worst case for me.

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VPS.NET – 9 Months in

thought i would update on my progress with VPS.net as i have been with them a little bit longer and i also have a couple of clients and friends that i have helped here so by proxy have had the chance to experience a wide variety of setups and situations,

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Amazon Cloudfront

i have been fighting in my spare time set up Amazon Cloudfront to take some of the hit off my server (i can then run it more efficiently and then save money) i wished i could have used VPS.net‘s akamai offerings but seeing as the idea was to try and save money it would have defeated the purpose.

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No Internet…. grrrr but good in a way

Going into our second week without internet in the flat its tedious but in many respects it has also been equally a good thing for me.

Firstly a little background. About a month ago, Sky our broadband provider phoned us up on a sales call to basically get us to transfer our line rental from BT to Sky and save us some money,

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