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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Hosting gone bad: EVERYWHERE!!!
Signs of economic recession are hitting everywhere….even hosting services. It’s been a tough year for hosting provider. A lot of them have suffered from bad PR in different areas:
Rackspace: If last year’s catastrophe wasn’t enough, another one of Rackspace big named customer(37signals) suffered a two hour outage because of a bad load balancer.
UPDATE: Tumblr [...]