Today the remaining of the VPS.NET robots that where made for webhostingcon and other conferences finally arrived, I got myself a few to put on my desk, need to set a few aside for friends abroad, like everaldo and nay, who want a robot of their own. It’s so cool to see something one designed…
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VPS.NET … finally !
It’s been many months of hard work, countless revisions of code and design and an incredible amount of people and feedback, but finally last night we released VPS.NET. Ok, we calling it a “Public Beta”, but it only means we are still missing a few bits, what’s there is solid and working fine ! I…
What’s Next ? .. easy .. more Sleep !
I’m pondering tonight .. what does the future of Web Hosting Industry hold for those geeks like me who are fortunate (so I think) to make a living working on it. Back in the day, say first half of this decade, one of the problems that afflicted sysadmins, such as myself at the time, was…
Gearing up for SAN Testing
The greatest task on any job, has to be product tolerance testing. We are gearing up for a series of tests that will define what sort of SAN we will be using on the VPS Cloud, the actual tests will be performed early next week, for now we are setting up the hardware for it,…
The VPS.NET Mascot
I have always been a huge fan of website mascots, they are not just great marketing tool, but also a fantastic way for people to relate to their provider, plus for us, it’s a fun way to express ideas by utilizing the mascot, you can create cartoons, explanatory graphics, etc .. much nicer than plain…
Do you want fries with that VPS ?
I was reading recently a post on WHT about a customer complaint that he paid $8 /month for a VPS with a certain host, and he was upset he only got 200Mhz per core on a quad core setup (800Mhz total), and not the “entire” cpu … ! That was the kind of post that…
The importance of failure
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once said “Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.” .. I guess we can adapt that quote to the fact these days we learn more from when the systems fail, than when they are working fine .. such was the case today. We had done some…
Fluffy VPS Cloud ?
Since starting working on the VPS.net Cloud project, several people have asked me … what exactly is a VPS Cloud ?, I quickly explain it’s a conglomerate of high power servers and network based storage working in unison to allow almost instant deployment, scalability and self healing, a true utopian hosting environment… That is usually…
VPS.net
After months of planning, we are finally in the homestretch towards releasing our (until now, Uber-secret) VPS.net Cloud. So as such, time has come to start a blog (located at http://vps.net/blog), to keep everybody informed on the latest and greatest features we are working on for the VPS Cloud, as such, during the upcoming days…
WebHosting … Everybody Sucks
So last night I am made aware that the RC NUT website was down, ok, I checked the webserver .. no response, so I sent out a e-mail to support and didn’t tough much of it .. surely it would be up in 5-10 minutes 30 minutes later and no show, I started to get…