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Linode Rocks (and Thanks for All The Fish) 23 Oct 2010 | 10:50 pm
This year has really been hectic thus lack of posts here. This will be a short post as well as I aimed to finish my tax matter this weekend (for Australia, personal tax return is due at end of October...
MemcachePool::get() Server failed with: Network timeout – Possible Fixes 21 Oct 2010 | 07:40 pm
Migrated my busy PHP/Drupal website last night from one VPS hosting provider to another. In the process I am also upgrading the operating system from Debian 5 “Lenny” to Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx”. A b...
Rackspace Announced OpenStack 19 Jul 2010 | 09:27 pm
Just saw Rackspace just announced OpenStack, the open source software that powers its cloud computing platform. Currently licensed under Apache 2 license. There is a big list of big names showing inte...
Deploying Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx via Linode API 30 Apr 2010 | 03:14 pm
Ubuntu has just released their latest LTS, 10.4 “Lucid Lynx” today, and immediately Linode made it as an available distribution for deployment. Definitely kudos to team Linode there. I have actually b...
EveryDNS Transition to DynDNS 4 Feb 2010 | 02:30 pm
Got an email from David Ulevitch on 12 Jan to all the current EveryDNS subscribers that Dyn Inc has acquired EveryDNS. In the acquisition FAQ, 3) Will the service remain free? While we don’t 100% ha...
Why I Don’t Care About “Guaranteed Memory” on an OpenVZ VPS 5 Jan 2010 | 04:18 pm
If you have been hunting for a virtual private server for a while, you should know all the metrics that service providers use in their advertisement and package/plan pages. You have your monthly data ...
Coding Horror Meets Hosting Horror 12 Dec 2009 | 10:19 pm
Interesting story that got picked up on Hacker News and Proggit this morning — Jeff Atwood’s blog, Coding Horror, lost 100% of its data. Jeff puts 50% of the blame on the service provider of its VPS, ...
More on SliceHost vs. Linode 7 Dec 2009 | 02:53 pm
It all started when Eivind Uggedal posted his performance comparison of various Xen VPS providers — Linode, SliceHost/Rackspace, Prgmr and Amazon EC2. Here’s the summary: Summarizing the benchmarks g...
Google Announced Public DNS, a Domain Name Resolving Service 4 Dec 2009 | 12:39 pm
Saw the announcement this morning on the bus — Google Public DNS. My immediate reaction (as recorded on twitter) is — I’ll hate to be OpenDNS right now. David U. at OpenDNS quickly responded saying ba...
GeoVPS/Layerboom KVM Virtal Server Review 3 Dec 2009 | 05:13 pm
This is a quick review on the KVM virtual server provided by GeoVPS. Howard from Layerboom first contacted me back in May 2008 through this blog and LinkedIn, and that was before Layerboom was even st...
