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Rackspace: Two Weeks left On Our December Offers
We take on the day-to-day burdens that bog down your IT department, so it can get back to focusing on the important things. That means that you'll never have to implement, update, troubleshoot, patch, monitor, administer, backup data or worry again. That's what managed hosting means at Rackspace.
Date: 2007-12-21
Linux Developers Rejoice - NYSE Invests In Linux Systems
If there is any other sign that would indicate that Linux has reached a tipping point in terms of popularity and maturity, it is that the staid, stolid, and conservative New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is investing heavily in Linux systems to power its new Hybrid Stock Exchange system.
Date: 2007-12-17
Rackspace: Two reasons you should host with us before 2008
We take on the day-to-day burdens that bog down your IT department, so it can get back to focusing on the important things. That means that you'll never have to implement, update, troubleshoot, patch, monitor, administer, backup data or worry again. That's what managed hosting means at Rackspace.
Date: 2007-11-16
Linux Flyback Needs More Than Ease Of Use
Recently, there have been a number of posts about Linux Flyback, which is an attempt to wrap a gui around rsnapshot/rsync to make a Linux version of Apple's Time Machine.
Date: 2007-11-15
OpenJDK And Ice Tea
Because I've been a hermit over the past few days, I'm only now reading about Sun's open source event earlier this week.
Date: 2007-10-17
Core Crash Stack Trace For Flash Media Server On Linux
As promised previously here are some instructions on how to create a stack trace for FMS on Linux. Thanks to Asa Whillock from Adobe for writing this.
Date: 2007-10-02
Delivering the right tools for your website
Sure, we can watch to make sure that your site can be found. But we can go even further. We can actually go into the content of your site every 10 minutes to make sure your site isn't acting up and that your visitors can actually do what you want them to do. You'll know if content isn't loading, links aren't working or other little glitches are happening on your critical pages. And with checks happening every 10 minutes you'll know sooner rather than way too late.
Date: 2007-09-14
Is Linux Adoption Slowing?
Just read this on Barron's Online: Is the growth rate of Linux adoption slowing down? UBS software analyst Heather Bellini asks that provocative question in a rundown this morning on the findings...
Date: 2007-09-13
Quick Tip On Preventing PHP Exploits
Exploits happen but with some planning you can prevent the worst of them. Planning for an exploit includes considering how to mitigate the damage, how to recover from it, and prevention..
Date: 2007-08-16
How Fanatical Support(TM) can work for your business
No more worrying about web hosting uptime. No more spending your time, energy and resources trying to stay on top of things like
patching, updating, monitoring, backing up data and the like. And no more wondering if there's a better way to go about it all.
Date: 2007-08-15
Oracle To Buy Red Hat Or BEA?
Matt asks (almost as an aside to a post on a related topic): My question: why not just buy Red Hat? Before Red Hat buys MySQL, and gives those database numbers a run for their money?
Date: 2007-07-18
A Hosting Environment for the Environment
Working with partners like NativeEnergy and The Green Grid, Rackspace is diligently working toward a goal of being 100% Green. We know it's not something that can happen overnight, but by addressing the problem and educating our customers and employees, we are taking the first step toward a cleaner tomorrow.
Date: 2007-07-17
Date Math In Linux Shell Script
Within a Linux shell script to be used as a cron job, how do I calculate the current date, the current date - n days, and the current date + n days?
Date: 2007-06-26
Microsoft And "The World's Easiest Desktop Linux"
Yesterday, Microsoft and Linspire Inc. announced a ‘protection deal' for the small Linux vendor. Linspire develops and markets the Linspire distribution of Linux,marketed as ‘The World's Easiest Desktop Linux'.
Date: 2007-06-15
Adding Risk Into The OSS Customer Equation
Finally catching up on some reading…I came across this post at ZDNet that discusses an upgrade of Red Hat's stock by Credit Suisse.
Date: 2007-05-31
Monitoring Your Server's Availability and Your Visitors' Website Experience
We've bundled together Rackspace Platinum Monitoring and Urchin Web Analytics Software so you can now have two easy and thorough ways to watch over the performance of your Rackspace web environment. And they're from two completely different perspectives — monitoring your server's availability and reporting on your visitors' website experience.
Date: 2007-05-11
Getting Help with a Linux Command or Concept
As part of your Linux training, it is vital that you clearly understand Linux concepts, like: how to boot Linux, the Linux file system, and how to create a Linux user.
Date: 2007-05-10
IBM
And OSS - Burning Boats
Okay, I do not speak for IBM in any way (read
full disclaimer here). But after reading the following from Matt
Asay's post, I couldn't resist.
Date:
2007-04-25
Review: The Linux Programmer's Toolbox
Wow. Regular readers here know I don't say "wow" lightly. I may like a book, I may even think it's useful or even something you really should have, but very few really make my jaw drop.
Date: 2007-04-13
Think about servers inside and outside the box
If you want to build out your own DIY social network, then you need to check out ELGG. ELGG is a new open source social network software package that is available on source forge.
Date: 2007-04-10
ELGG - Social Technology Software
If you want to build out your own DIY social network, then you need to check out ELGG. ELGG is a new open source social network software package that is available on source forge.
Date: 2007-03-29
Rackspace: Start Working with the Hosting Experts
Starting with Fanatical Support™, Rackspace is about one thing and one thing only—supporting you. It goes way beyond just your box or configuration. What's outside the box, our people, technical expertise, Zero-Downtime Network™, data centers and guarantees all exist to make your IT life easier. It's what makes us the hosting experts and everyone else just hosting providers.
Date: 2007-03-15
Enderle On Linux
Linux does not exist except as a concept, we can all move on now. No I am not bashing Rob, but I did find his paper "The Five Things you Aren't Allowed to Discuss about Linux" to be interesting from...
Date: 2007-03-14
Linux To Microsoft: Bring It, Freakshow
Advocates for Linux want Microsoft and their CEO, Steve Ballmer, to dispense with the threats and show which code in the Linux world infringes on Microsoft's property.
Date: 2007-02-28
Fighting Analysis Paralysis With Open Source?
I stumbled across this analysis of the Linux Kernel which brought back "fond" memories of my market opportunity forecasting days.
Date: 2007-02-15
The Linux Hosting Expert
Since our founding, Rackspace has supported and promoted the Open Source community working closely with Red Hat to develop and support unparalleled Linux hosting solutions. With more than 80 Red Hat Certified Engineers (RHCEs), we're home to more in-house Linux expertise than any other provider in the world. Our expertise has been recognized by the industry — Rackspace is the first Red Hat Certified provider and also the first MySQL Certified provider.
Date: 2007-02-13
Novell Could Loose Access To New Linux Versions
Make a deal with a big closed source company and the FSF (Free Software Foundation) may pull your access rights to Linux Distro's. At least that is what Novell is facing this week.
Date: 2007-02-07
Open Source Needs More Concerted Efforts
Major corporate houses choose open source partly due to the economic gains and mainly due to the control the open source system gives to their hands.
Date: 2007-01-17
Don't just think, know your site is secure
Thinking your web environment is secure and knowing it's secure are two entirely different things. With your data, your site's uptime and your business' reputation all hanging in the balance, thinking your security is adequate just isn't good enough.
You have to know, without a doubt, that from every angle everything is secure.
Date: 2007-01-16
Invalidating The Linux Buffer Cache
When you write data, it doesn't necessarily get written to disk right then. The kernel maintains caches of many things, and disk data is something where a lot of work is done to keep everything fast and efficient.
Date: 2007-01-10
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