SRCE 1.0.7 is out
From my e-mail to gnupanel-devel: For inclusion with GNUPanel, I have finished and released SRCE 1.0.7. For those of you who don’t know what SRCE is, here’s a synopsis: SRCE stands for (S)ecure (R)emote (C)ommand (E)xecution, however it does much more. SRCE is a non-blocking microkernel style cluster of services that revolves around a very [...]
Xen and the art of web hosting
I’m working on a pretty comprehensive book aimed at helping web hosting providers adopt Xen for some of their offerings. Xen ‘out of the box’ is a really nice platform designed to make as many people happy as possible. Web hosts have special needs that require special planning, a guide to planning and implementing Xen [...]
Avoiding ‘scope creep’
Anyone who has worked as a consultant knows the dreaded phrase ‘scope creep’, a euphemism employed to describe a situation where a customer is (usually) attempting to get services for free. Scope creep can be rather difficult to spot, usually a consultant does not realize the amount of services that they’ve provided for free until [...]
GNU Panel 0.2.3 is out :)
I’m excited and pleased to announce that GNU Panel (a free web hosting automation system) version 0.2.3 is out, and that the official Mercurial repositories have been created! A very special thanks to Serverbalance for giving us room to host our Xen farm. GNU Panel now features a dialog based installer, much easier to use [...]
The science of insider fraud
IT Wire is running something neat today, researchers in Australia have combined efforts to automate the process of detecting (internal) employee fraud. This research is of particular interest to any company that enjoys a decentralized structure that enables employees to work from home via the Internet. To explain why this sort of research is so [...]
CI Host robbed at gunpoint (again)
Its been disclosed, yet again, that CI Host Chicago was indeed stormed by armed robbers who stole 20+ servers and assorted network gear on October 2nd. This makes the fourth time since 2005 that CI Host Chicago has been robbed in this manner. CI Host delayed disclosing the theft of their customer’s co-located computers for [...]
Storage On Demand – The canvas for sensible virtualization
It is extremely difficult to keep up with 30,000 + web hosts (in the US alone) to keep a bird’s eye view of what is being adopted in the virtualization market. I spent a few hours today clicking banners and digging up statistics to make sure that my “Who’s Who” in the industry is kept [...]
Why always blame the web host?
A friend of mine (and operator of a small hosting company) was chatting with me about a client who insisted that his web site was hacked because the “server was insecure”. Every time I hear that, I chuckle. I’m hearing it at an alarming rate lately, as many people are getting fed up with larger [...]
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