thought i would put some of my early thoughts of VPS.net’s new SAN infrastructure as i have now been using them for a couple of weeks in production usage.
when i first started using the new London clouds (London Zone E – F opening soon) there were a very limited range of templates available
one good bonus of the new SAN infrastructure is that Windows is now available on VPS.net –
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Just a brief test of the wordpress iPhone app. Seeing how useful it is on the go. So that rather than just reading a metro or evening standard I can be doing something more productive.
This hopefully is my view right now. Just waiting for a train to Sutton to fix an iPhone
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the title says it all really, and seriously dont underestimate it. lets just give some background, i do occasional freelance systems admin work in my free time, this includes but is not limited to, server setup and maintenance, site migrations and optimisation and other general geekery relating to webservers 🙂
i was contacted last week by a guy called Rick Anderson of Tailoring the Web to optimise and speed up his server hosting one of his sites Build Your Own Business Website he told me that he had paid for VPS.net to migrate him from bluehost and manage the server for him,
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A nice geeky post again 🙂
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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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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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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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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Anthonyso a client particularly wanted php 5.3 for a project and mysql 5.1 but at the moment needs to operate on smallest possible footprint.
i did some research on it and actually found a useful resource for updated php and mysql resources called Dotdeb – http://dotdeb.org
the idea of this repository is to keep the core lamp stack binaries up to date and keep support for the ease of updating (via apt-get)
so upon taking a look i decided to trial it on my personal vps and with my niggles i rolled it out to the work server i manage along with the client too.
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well i finally got my wave invite, got in, found that for 100,000 first wave of invites there must be a lot of Anthony Somerset’s because i couldnt get a preferred username 🙁
first looks. looks much like my mail client just a bit more shined up
bit underwhelming as no one is online at the moment,
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as the title says forget being dugg by the site digg.com! its been noticed that traffic on digg.com’s front page is down, this would immediately suggest that the digg effect is no longer as bad as it once could be (taking sites offline just because it hit the front page of digg.com)
i want to suggest the new alternative to being dugg…
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