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 [...]
Virtualization does NOT decrease security!
Theo de Raadt made some rather general (and sweeping) statements regarding how virtualization might or might not increase or decrease security. I’m not at all concerned with the things that he suggests. Many programmers have never had to deal with the hosting (IAAS) industry. When you sell access to GNU/Linux (Or BSD) computers to anyone [...]
Big, fat, rich losers
In a recent press release, Jonathan Tranter unveils a plan to help anyone turn digital lead into gold. The program (named The Big Fat Rich Losers Network) aims to assist those who have lots of Internet domains that never quite took off. The thinking behind the network seems rather simple. If I have a web [...]
How busy is your Xen host?
Several people have written to me asking how to determine how ‘busy’ their Xen hosting provider’s servers have become. I just love new buzzwords, ‘busy’ now indicates how many VPS accounts that a web host packs on a single machine. To scope out a Xen host, you need to ask them some questions about their [...]
Hosting control panel standards are needed
Last week, I set off to do something rather simple, I wanted to make a very simple control system for Xen that could plug into just about any web hosting control panel. My goal was to make one application that could be easily modified to fit into any kind of panel. This project has turned [...]
GNUPanel soon open to developers
I’ve received notice from Jorge and Ricardo, the lead developers of GNUPanel that very soon I’ll have a new semi-properized set of installation scripts. Once I get them, Mercurial repositories will be created. I’m planning the following: public/ Branches from core developers Main (stable) public branch Dev (unstable) public branch queue/ Patch queue for stable [...]
Net industries are shifting away from outsourcing
I’m a freelance consultant, technically, I am ‘outsourced help’. I’m starting to see a trend (at least in the ISP / hosting industries) to shift away from outsourced help and hire people in-house. I still get work, not many people know how to do what I do. The freelancing industry leaves you with a feast [...]
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