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Howto: Setup a Mac Mini as a BGP Router
Thinking Differently… An update on our Mac Mini Routers at LINX
We have been quiet for a while on the subject of the mac minis we installed into LINX at Telehouse several months ago…
You may remember the previous article, basically we are using a pair of Mac Mini computers to connect our hosting platform to the LINX Internet exchange in London.
First Mac Mini BGP routers on world’s largest Internet exchange
We think this could be a world’s first: Forget Cisco or Juniper, yesterday we hooked up two Mac Mini boxes running Quagga in to the London INternet eXchange (LINX) to act as BGP border routers for the Fubra Network.
LINX handles 95% of total UK Internet traffic, and as their newest members we had to come up with a clever solution to keep costs low and speeds high. Utilitising just 3U of rackspace, we were able to install 2 low latency HP gigabit switches and a pair of 1.83 GHz Mac Minis with 2 GB Ram, giving us fully redundant connections to the largest Internet Exchange Point in the world.
Fubra announces InsanelyMac acquisition
We are pleased to announce that we have acquired a new web site InsanelyMac.com. The site is a leading discussion forum and news site which discusses a range of apple related products and software.
It was acquired following the successful acquisition of HousePriceCrash.co.uk last year another forum web site which discusses the possibility of house prices falling.
As a business traditionally Fubra’s growth has come purely organically. But we have spent more than a year working hard on perfecting our internal systems and processes as well as our hosting platform and advertising systems. Now we are ready to step up our growth levels both organically and via acquisition. We are excited about the prospects for both methods of growth.
The purchase of HousePriceCrash.co.uk has given us confidence, that we can successfully integrate a community web site into our network of web sites and make improvements to it. Those improvements have pleased the community and enhanced our traffic and earnings growth from the web site.
As Fubra continues to grow we will look for more web sites to integrate into our portfolio that are priced at sensible earnings multiples. The sites will need to present the opportunity to better monitise the existing traffic they have and also to use our other internal talent and platforms to grow the current traffic.
InsanelyMac.com is a great addtion with over 40,000 visitor per day and 14% of those UK based visits and 60% US based. It adds substantially to our portfolio of sites and is a rare find. Anyone wishing to target this technology savvy audience should contact Brendan on our team page about the options available.