Building a sandbox requires planning
I mean it. 6 servers (5 operational as one is crashing itself repeatedly), 2 switches, and bandwidth. This should be easy to do! I mean: what could go wrong?
I mean it. 6 servers (5 operational as one is crashing itself repeatedly), 2 switches, and bandwidth. This should be easy to do! I mean: what could go wrong?
Yesterday – a very interesting issue cropped up… Another local provider had email warnings being generated that they could not connect to our frontend MX servers. The error itself was: IPv6 is not supported Which is not very clear for a reason email can not be delivered. I mean, my systems are working fine with IPv6 and we have native […]
So, across my RSS feed today, I saw a blurb… Apache terminates ‘outated’ web server What? I clicked the link and was sent off to The Register for their report on the issue. Apache 1.3 was released in July, 1998 – 12 years ago, and still in operation today. At ipHouse – we use 1.3 as the tried and true […]
In the last 6 months, I have helped multiple customers achieve their dream of a virtual machine environment built for them exclusively, but with abilities to control their virtual machine setup, configuration, turn up, tear down, etc. These dedicated infrastructure environments are in the ipHouse data center. This isn’t ‘cloud computing’ as many people think of it (thanks to Amazon […]
Why virtualize? Better yet, why use virtualized server services for your business? I’ll try to answer that question in this blog post, though from a service provider point of view, but I’ll try to remove my bias where feasible. Summary: For many business needs, a virtualized server on a hosting providers infrastucture is very cost effective, very secure, and highly […]
Yah, I am a Comcast Internet subscriber. No I do not love it, nor do I hate it. Personal Opinion: I don’t mind a 250GB cap – I can live with that…I hope. Subjective Opinion: But some of their numbers do not make any sense to me. If you view their FAQ on the bandwidth capping, they may not have […]