Cool article from Paul Stamatiou describing how to use your MediaTemple account for an SSH tunnel with Meerkat. Simple and effective interweb security.
(Via PaulStamatiou.com.)
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Review: Meerkat (SSH Tunnels Made Easy)
(xv) Xserve-Virtual from MediaTemple
If you’ve always seen OS X Leopard Server and drooled, soon you will be able to get it for monthly fee from MediaTemple, which is currently testing their (xv) Xserve-Virtual which like their regular(dv), use Parallels to virtualize the server software. This is really exiting, since there are very few hosting providers that offer such [...]
MediaTemple’s (dv) upgraded to Plesk 8.4
MediaTemple upgraded their Plesk version for the dedicated virtual servers to all their new (dv) 3.5 users and available as an upgrade to current users by submitting a request ticket. Doesn’t seem like a big update, but hey every time I read this, I click to upgrade:
In addition to these new features you also benefit [...]
Irony: Dowmforeveryoneorjustme.com down (for a few minutes)
Since MediaTemple’s Grid Service started suffering outages, I started using downforeveryoneorjustme.com to check my website availability.
I know they are not indestructible, but the irony of them being down when I wanted to check if my site was down, left me wondering where can I check to see if downforeveryoneorjustme.com is down so that I [...]
Network Solutions and ICANN sued…well deserved!
Someone had to do it. Registrars can’t go around locking up domains after people check their availability. They should least post a disclaimer if they want to be sleazy. I’ve talked about bad hosting/registars before.
(Via TechCrunch.)
Rackspace gets into the Cloud
Today Rackpace’s Mosso started offering a new grid computing services to better compete with Joyent, MediaTemple and Amazon S3. Plans start at $100 with the following technology:
Linux: PHP 4 & 5, MySQL 4 & 5, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python
Windows: IIS 7, NET 2,3+3.5, MS SQL 2005
Who would think of building a company on [...]
Heroku simplifies Rails
Ruby on Rails is the classic example of “there is no such thing as a free lunch”. Although Rails is rather easy to lear and develop, it is a pain in the neck to deploy(you pay for it early or late in the game). Usually apps work wonderfully in the machine where the development is [...]
More on Media Temple’ (dv) 3.5
Nice article from Paul Stamatiou on the recent (dv) upgrade. He has a better list of facts than I do.
(Via PaulStamatiou.com.)
MediaTemple rolls out (dv) 3.5 for new customers…old ones have to migrate themselves (UPDATED)
MediaTemple announced today that they were rolling out their new (dv) servers. (dv)’s are similar to the Joyent Accelerators, which are basically virtual dedicated servers (more info on the FAQ). The (dv) are built on Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 and Plesk 8.3 which were released in December. All new customers get these starting today,and old [...]
Twitter New Hosting Provider is Japanese
Twitter has made a “strategic alliance” with NTT America Enterprise Hosting Services for their reliability and global perspective(whatever that means).
Maybe it’s because I am not in the “biz”, but I’ve never heard of these guys. My Speculation: By strategic alliance, Twitter probably got a great deal since NTT will be getting a lot of [...]