Archive for the ‘Virtualization’ Category
August 9th, 2009 | 
Author: 3 Blog posts to say “Hey I’m running on my site load balanced using ARR”. This is the third and hopefully last blog post for tonight. I posted two other posts tonight:
- Discusses the first stage of Applied Innovations Cloud Initiative.
- Discusses ARR & Load balancing.
I broke this post up into a series of posts. The first post (just published) gives an overview of ARR in IIS7 and why it’s cool. This post is going to talk about the first stage of cloud computing we’ve deployed at Applied Innovations and the benefit’s of it such that you could use it today to control your own hosted IT Infrastructure costs.
A new version of the Linux Additions for Virtual Server is now available from the Microsoft Download Center via the following webpage:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/virtualserver/downloads/linuxguestsupport.mspx
Posted in Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Windows Administration | 
Tags: MSVS, Virtual Server 2005, virtualpc | 
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Here’s Jess’s top 10 tips and tricks to help optimize your Windows VPS server running on Virtuozzo.
- Disable Indexing Service.
Unless you’re using the FrontPage search bot you generally don’t need indexing service running and you should disable it. - Defrag your drives.
Disk I/O is king, especially in a VPS and you should be regularly defragging your drives in your VPS just as you would in a physical server. - Don’t run antivirus in the VPS.
Antivirus should always be run from the host node and on our servers it is. We use either AVG or McAfee on our hardware nodes. This doesn’t mean you have to accept virus infected emails. Configure your mail client to allow a suitable delay in email delivery (I recommend 60 seconds if you can, otherwise 30 should be sufficient) and the hostnode antivirus will take care of the rest.
It’s no secret I’m a big fan of Virtuozzo virtualization software from swsoft.com. I think for a hosting platform it’s really the best solution on the market today and we’re basing our entire VPS hosting solely around it.
Recently in preparation for our release of windows VPS hosting (very soon) we brought everything up to date including taking Virtuozzo to 3.5.1 SP1. Normally, an SP1 means major changes and this is no exception.
