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. All of this was to explain how I’m running […]
JessCoburn.Com running on ARR! and that not be Pirate speak thar Matey! Read More »
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
Elastic Computing AKA Cloud Computing as provided by Applied Innovations Read More »
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 These new Additions add support for some updated distributions of Linux and are designed to work with Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 which is available at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver Currently Qualified Linux Guest Operating
Linux Additions for Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 updated Read More »
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
Performance Tips for Your Windows VPS running Virtuozzo Read More »
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
Windows Virtuozzo VPS Server Software gets even cooler! Read More »
A follow up to Smartertools answers the cry on the fight against spam with smartermail 4.0. Alot of clients have been asking about how we’re handling spamassassin with Smartermail 4.0. It’s no secret that spamassassin on a windows server runs horribly slow. If more than a handful of domains are involved I have no doubt
Smartermail, Spamassassin, Virtuozzo VPSs Read More »
I recently posted a blog entry about my ‘informal’ apples to oranges comparison of the different virtualization platforms available for windows. Apparently I didn’t spell it out clear enough that things were not on a level playing field. Well, guys I did it. I went and pissed off Bob. Sorry Bob. But Bob taught me
Read that EULA & PUR! That’s what I learned today! Read More »
I recently posted a blog entry about my ‘informal’ apples to oranges comparison of the different virtualization platforms available for windows. Apparently I didn’t spell it out clear enough that things were not on a level playing field. Well, guys I did it. I went and pissed off Bob. Sorry Bob. But Bob taught me
Read that EULA & PUR! That’s what I learned today! Read More »
I’ve pulled the article until I have time to properly benchmark all three systems on identical hardware, hopefully after the holidays. Although I used different hardware, I firmly believe my numbers provided a reasonable estimate of what performance you would see using identical hardware. I’d had verbal feedback from others that in fact they saw
Microsoft has an article available regarding Virtual Server 2005 R2 and iSCSI. I've been digging around on the forums and it seems the only way to really get the performance out of this is by having the iSCSI storage on the actual host machine. I haven't played with it, don't know enough about it but I do know iSCSI
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