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	<title>Mike@ipHouse Blog &#187; Software</title>
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		<title>The dilemma &#8211; OS updates vs OS type</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/08/the-dilemma-os-updates-vs-os-type/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years I have been a FreeBSD bigot. I love FreeBSD, the stability, performance, ease of use, and steady progression. But&#8230; Updates are kind of a chore, there is no such thing as true incremental updates, you either do patch updates against RELEASE, or you do world updates against STABLE. I am a STABLE kind <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/08/the-dilemma-os-updates-vs-os-type/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A storage cluster is born</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/05/a-storage-cluster-is-born/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 23:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=389</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/05/a-storage-cluster-is-born/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Linux Distributions vs PHP</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/03/linux-distributions-vs-php/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The splintering of Linux distributions seems to be continuing! This week, I have had requests for PHP versions 5.3 and 5.2 on both Red Hat EL 5 and CentOS 5 &#8211; though never distribution supports higher than 5.1.6 in the official repositories. PHP 5.2 has been out quite a while. Ubuntu Hardy LTS has it <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/03/linux-distributions-vs-php/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Apache 1.3 &#8211; you were loved</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/02/apache-1-3-you-were-loved/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/02/apache-1-3-you-were-loved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=330</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, across my RSS feed today, I saw a blurb&#8230; Apache terminates &#8216;outated&#8217; 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 &#8211; 12 years ago, and still in operation today. At ipHouse &#8211; we use 1.3 <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/02/apache-1-3-you-were-loved/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shell service available</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/shell-service-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/shell-service-available/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>UNIX Shell services, what&#8217;s the fuss?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/unix-shell-services-whats-the-fuss/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/unix-shell-services-whats-the-fuss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=297</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wowzers, quite a little thread going on in a newsgroup, but really, what&#8217;s the big deal? I think I know&#8230; 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 <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/unix-shell-services-whats-the-fuss/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Over Subscription vs Over Capacity &#8211; huh?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/over-subscription-vs-over-capacity-huh/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/over-subscription-vs-over-capacity-huh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2010/01/over-subscription-vs-over-capacity-huh/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Example cost: Virtual Private Cloud on VMware</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/09/example-cost-virtual-private-cloud-on-vmware/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/?p=226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t &#8216;cloud computing&#8217; as many people think <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/09/example-cost-virtual-private-cloud-on-vmware/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Outbound Email Spam is teh suck</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/07/outbound-email-spam-is-teh-suck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No mispelling, just playing &#8216;new internet lingo&#8217; game.  Did I win? Let&#8217;s get serious&#8230; This week, multiple customer accounts were breached.  Starting approximately 3 weeks ago, a phish was sent out that some of our customers responded to, giving out their account information. We looked through our mail logs and found the users who had <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/07/outbound-email-spam-is-teh-suck/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>VMware vSphere takes me by storm</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/05/vmware-vsphere-takes-me-by-storm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 22:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official download was available on May 21st, 2009, and I was waiting anxiously for my license keys for the new vCenter (management console) and host license keys (that which is the hypervisor)&#8230; I got them on that day, and then proceeded to spend way too much time with it.  For some people, addiction is a bad thing. <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/05/vmware-vsphere-takes-me-by-storm/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>VMware vSphere &#8211; 1 more day of waiting!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/05/vmware-vsphere-1-more-day-of-waiting/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/05/vmware-vsphere-1-more-day-of-waiting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 18:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, May 21st, 2009, normal people around the world will get a chance to download VMware&#8217;s newest edition of their infrastructure  &#8217;cloud operating system&#8217; products named vSphere. I am very excited to see what this all entails.  I have read the documents, reviewed the upgrade steps and procedures, have read many a blog entry from those special <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/05/vmware-vsphere-1-more-day-of-waiting/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Linux Sucks! &#8211; a presentation</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/05/linux-sucks-a-presentation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 16:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Linux Sucks!" from Brian Lunduke was a great presentation showing why Linux can't hit mainstream at this point in time.  He does this without creating offense or alienating his audience.]]></description>
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		<title>ipHouse releases VMware based server services</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/04/iphouse-releases-vmware-based-server-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virtualization, one of the buzzwords flying around the Internet today, is a method of running separate servers (guests) with separate operating systems on shared physical hardware (the host).  I wrote a quick summary back in February, 2009 that should help give some context. Here at ipHouse, we have chosen to use VMware for our virtualization <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/04/iphouse-releases-vmware-based-server-services/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Virtualization War II (VWII)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/04/virtualization-war-ii-vwii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oooh, the virtualization wars are reaching a new level, and with this new video from Microsoft we have reached a new level of marketing misdirection with some future capabilities included. The video focuses on 10 items that VMware says they have over Hyper-V&#8230;that are being refuted by the marketing and tech guy in the video. <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/04/virtualization-war-ii-vwii/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Virtualization and you &#8211; the business user</title>
		<link>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/02/virtualization-and-you-the-business-user/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/02/virtualization-and-you-the-business-user/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why virtualize?  Better yet, why use virtualized server services for your business? I&#8217;ll try to answer that question in this blog post, though from a service provider point of view, but I&#8217;ll try to remove my bias where feasible. Summary:  For many business needs, a virtualized server on a hosting providers infrastucture is very cost <a href="http://blogs.iphouse.net/mike/2009/02/virtualization-and-you-the-business-user/" class="more-link">More &#62;</a>]]></description>
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