Lagniappe Internet has added another node for virtual private servers. The new node is a Tyan GT24 server housing 2 AMD 2GHz Quad Core Opteron processors, 16GB of Registered ECC RAM, 4 Western Digital RE2 Enterprise class drives connected to a Dell/LSI PERC 5i RAID controller with 256MB of ECC RAM for buffering and a Battery Backup Unit. Drives are connected in RAID-10 combining both striping for speed and mirroring for data protection. Additional servers are being prepped to add to Lagniappe Internet’s hosting capacity. All servers are owned by the company not leased, and custom configured specifically for webhosting duties. Lagniappe Internet was founded in 2008 with a “no debt” philosophy. The means the company grows naturally and never bites off more than it can chew. So customers have no worries that it will pull up stakes and disappear into the ether. [TweetButton]
WHIR Webinar – DNS for Hosting Companies
DNS for Hosting Companies
Ensuring Zero Downtime
Black Friday is around the corner. Are you prepared to handle the onslaught?
If your DNS breaks, then your web presence, and therefore your business will come to a halt. Internet-based (DDoS) attacks and other malicious behavior are on the rise and have resulted in significant DNS outages. Your customers’ web presence ultimately relies on your DNS.
For hosting companies, having the best DNS is absolutely critical, especially during the busy online holiday season. The risks are significant: Revenue loss due to customer refunds or credits, loss of current and future customers, and bad publicity for your brand.
Please join us for a discussion on how to mitigate these risks and ensure zero downtime for hosting companies and their customers. The webinar will also explain the steps you must consider when selecting the best DNS for your network.
Learn more about Dr. Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the Domain Name System (DNS).
Title: DNS for Hosting Companies — Ensuring Zero Downtime
Date:Thursday, September 9, 2010
Time:2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer
Register at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/983790403
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BlueOnyx … remember RAQs?
Those of us that have been doing this for a while remember the RAQ servers – small servers designed to be webhosting ‘appliances’. They got he job done and were small and cheap. They were a good inbetween step from shared hosting to full-blown dedicated server. So basically they were the predecessor to the VPS basically.
Today we have the VPS, and if done right (hardware RAID-1,5, or even better 10, not overloaded/oversold, fast drives, sufficient memory) VPSes can be a great solution for those needing more than shared hosting but not so much as to need a dedicated. But you still need a control panel of some sort. If you’re thinking of reselling, cPanel or DirectAdmin are probably the way to go as that’s what your customers are going to expect. But both of those require either a 1 time cost for DA or either can be leased per month adding to what you need to bring in just to break even.
There’s an alternative if you aren’t reselling – say your a web designer, or host enough sites personally to warrant the move off of shared hosting, for example. This was a good place for the RAQ servers. You didn’t need the reselling and management features (and costs) of cPanel/WHM or DirectAdmin, but you need something. Sure hosting sites with just the components and hand editing each config file as you need CAN be done, but why?
BlueOnyx came from the RAQ server days, and now with VPSes being so abundantly available and cheap, it’s a viable alternative again. So yes you can have your cake and eat it too. BlueOnyx provides a very nice looking web based administration and a long list of features:
Lagniappe Internet (the sponsor for this site) is putting together a BlueOnyx VPS offer as this is being written… contact them for details.
