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CatN vCluster for free!
CatN is a new hosting service that provides clustered php hosting, while offering levels of control similar to a dedicated hosting solution.
Why clustered hosting?
Clustered hosting has many benefits:
- Load is spread across numerous servers, reducing the reliance one machine, and avoiding bottlenecks.
- Your site will be spread across all parts of vCluster, so if one server goes down, the remaining servers will continue to host your site and keep it live.
- Different processes can be separated. We use a separate layer of servers for serving scripts to static content like images, which enables us to control resource use and guarantee performance of php scripts with dedicated resources.
- The nature of clustered hosting enables us to scale our super computer to meet any demands on capacity instantly. Experience no drops in performance when they receive a visitor spike, we simply add more servers to meet the new demands.
LINX66 Presentation
Today saw day 1 of LINX66, the LINX members meeting at Goodenough College in London. As a LINX member we dispatched our MD Brendan to make a short talk to the group about one of our latest projects — our in-house datacentre.
The presentation briefly covered why we had opted to develop our own infrastructure, how we have gone about implementing all the ancillary services required in a datacentre environment, the network and technology we have built the main services around, how we had gone about detecting and overcoming the inevitable problems which crop up during the day-to-day running of such a facility, and finally the services we are offering at our facility. Brendan then took questions from the floor relating to the final price tag of the project, as well as addressing some of the technical questions relating to our environmental monitoring network.
For more information download the slides which accompanied the presentation (they’re in PowerPoint format).
Celebrity Generator Test #1
Today we had the pleasure of swapping datacentre tours with Sun Microsystems. While we’re not quite on the same scale as Sun we always aim to impress and asked Wayne Horkan, their UK CTO, to perform our weekly generator test.
That means cutting off all mains power to the UPS suite and waiting for the black smoke and roar of our generator kicking in! Yes it worked, and there is nothing like throwing a datacentre kill switch to put a grin on any IT professional’s face…