Craige McWhirter wrote:
On the grapevine I've heard rumour of virtual hosting happening among
other things. If anyone who is busting a gut on this right now could
give a quick overview, that'd be great :)
Hi,
I don't know how it broke, but we have had a long offer to rehost the
slug box for a while now. That offer was taken up finally after maddog
being down for a while, and as a result SLUG (website and mailling
lists) are hosted on a Xen 3.0 VM on AMD64 on one of our boxes. The VM
is called Rusty and has 256MB Ram allocated with 10Gb of hard drive
space. Rusty also seems to host linuxchix and AMSsig and maybe a few others.
Anyway, the new VM lives in a shiny new server in at Equinix here:
http://www.equinix.com/prod_serv_asia/sydney/
(in fact if you look closely in the first picture, the rack is the
second one in on the third row!) :)
Solutions First is donating the VM and bandwidth to SLUG, and would love
for everyone to be nice and refer some hosting work our way if you
appreciate it :) Just email me if you want details.
We will also be offereing Xen based VM hosting on our new AMD64 boxes in
the near future, (or now if you don't mind a lead time on provisioning)
so keep us in mind if you want to try out Xen (its much better than
UML). Though of course we are based here in Sydney, so we can't compete
(and don't want to) with US based hosting for bandwidth. Of course we
kick em on service :)
As for what happend to Maddog, I this Chris Deigan can fill you in.
Thanks
Dave
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