about 3 months ago - 25 comments
It is time to add space to our VMware cluster for storage of VMs for our customers. We started initially using Compellent SAN storage. Worked well, had a lot of space, but the performance was not what I was looking for (it is all SATA based), using F/C is far more complicated than we need More >
about 5 months ago - No comments
Just random sets of links to different sites that were linking back or referencing our April Fools tie in. We had a great day and some very silly feedback – and I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. http://www.thewhir.com/ http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/ http://topicfire.com/ http://www.webhostersnews.com/ http://seclists.org/nanog/ – my personal favorite http://robot-roomba.cellcasesandmore.com/ http://www.vrytek.com/ http://betterhostingplans.com/ http://friendfeed.com/ http://twitter.com/ More >
about 5 months ago - 1 comment
Earlier today we announced the changes to our data center – you can read about that here. Now we are getting some feedback: How did you do it? Why did you do it? Why not shag? Those purple stripes clash with my servers, wtf? So, onward we go, with help from an office mate who More >
about 6 months ago - No comments
Back in September, 2009, I had written a post with a quick overview of what a private cloud (or infrastructure) looks like and some basic costs and information, including why it is a great product (I am biased). Since then, Dell has retired the PE2900III model server and items change, this is an update for More >
about 7 months ago - No comments
So, across my RSS feed today, I saw a blurb… Apache terminates ‘outated’ web server What? I clicked the link and was sent off to The Register for their report on the issue. Apache 1.3 was released in July, 1998 – 12 years ago, and still in operation today. At ipHouse – we use 1.3 More >
about 7 months ago - 1 comment
Been a long week and I had to deal with some red tape internally (of my own creation!), but finally have some working shell service to sell to people who want it. I had posted last week about the issue(s) of shell services and decided that I would do the work to put this kind More >
about 7 months ago - 2 comments
Wowzers, quite a little thread going on in a newsgroup, but really, what’s the big deal? I think I know… Not everyone uses the Internet for viewing web pages and downloading pr0nself-help videos and television shows. The Internet itself has become much easier for the layman to use, and with that, these historical services are More >
about 7 months ago - No comments
Recently, a whole slew of tweets showed up across my feed dealing with the perceived and measured issues across multiple public cloud providers infrastructure. One of the posts comes from Chris Hoff (this post in particular) that describes quite clearly what the differences are. Service providers (anyone doing cloud services, virtualization, colocation, bandwidth, whatever) live upon the More >
about 9 months ago - No comments
The crowd cheers! Though that might just be me :) I am very excited for this update and I hope that it goes as smoothly as other updates have gone. I have already updated 2 non-production systems (both ESX) and I am in the process of updating some non-production ESXi servers. One of the items I More >
about 12 months ago - 1 comment
In the last 6 months, I have helped multiple customers achieve their dream of a virtual machine environment built for them exclusively, but with abilities to control their virtual machine setup, configuration, turn up, tear down, etc. These dedicated infrastructure environments are in the ipHouse data center. This isn’t ‘cloud computing’ as many people think More >
