Ok, I say going HA/LB/GRID .. because depending on who you ask, you get the setup we deploying named after one of them. I gave the guys the green light yesterday to go ahead and setup the load balancers, NFS and redundant servers for the Linux setup, we expect to have it al done, and…
Category: Work
New XMAS Creative
We added some nice touches to the Relio site, one of them is a Christmas theme logo And the other is a Christmas theme splash for the main-page Do you see Santa ? We will do more of both for each major holiday 🙂 I also added a new CSS feature (lightbox) to open the…
Rea & Leo – Ep 7
This one was a no brainer … it’s December. The idea behind it was to make a cartoon where Leo is complaining he wont wear a clown’s red nose .. the idea behind the nose is so he looks like Rudolph. I am amazed at how much people liked this one, maybe it’s the XMAS…
Bloody SPAM.
Just for those who might complain they get allot of SPAM 🙂 We did a test on one of the mail-servers at Relio (MAIL1) .. and found out that: The server averages 2000 successful e-mails per hour (not much at all) The server bounces back in average close to 4000 SPAM messages per hour (using…
The new Hosting Fab .. GRID
There have been allot of discussions lately on WebHosting related forums about “Grid Hosting” So that got me thinking, how different is a “Grid” from a “Cluster” ? My first reaction to the whole thing was to get more info on what exactly are hosts calling a “Grid” .. on my Gfx background, we recognize…
Rea & Leo – Ep 6
When I was a kid living in Portugal, I used to love reading “Disney” comic books, used … nah, I still like them even these days :). Anyway, one of my favorite comics of all times, was a series of stories published in the late 70’s, early 80’s entitled “Goofy Does History”, on those stories,…
If it can’t go wrong … it will
A few days back, and we had an outage at Relio. Check out the dip on Friday Simple put, Rob took down one of the 2 routers we use, to upgrade it from FreeBSD to OpenBSD for better IP usage, with OpenBSD we can save 2 ip’s per allocation, currently each time we allocate an…
Rea & Leo – Ep 5
For this cartoon, I had envision a “mobile datacenter” based on a trailer. Since modern trailers have an AC on top, you get your cooling system, they are off the ground, so it’s raised flooring, add a nice combination lock to the door, a $150 generator from Homedepot (B&Q), a Sat-Web dish for redundancy, a…
Reseller Walkthrough Add-On
I Have been testing a new script that Jeff (hspheretemplates.com) is creating for H-Sphere. Basically it’s a Reseller Walkthrough .. the idea is, the reseller get their account, then then login and immediately are presented with a screen that highlights 15 steps they need to finish. 15 steps to success Until all steps are completed,…
Finally … Office Keys
I was frustrated as hell a few weeks back because I was unable to get my new office, not anymore, yesterday afternoon I got the keys and access fob. The new place is just great, 1.x miles from home, so I will be using my bike most days to comute, also my windows overlook a…