Archive for the ‘ISP / Hosting’ Category

Scalable Web Hosting — BETA to launch in July

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Last year I helped a friend to build a scalable web hosting platform so that he can host around 100 client websites. Ever since then I have been thinking of a way that I could build a much larger system to provide as a true multi-tenanted service to companies like ...

emailcloud goes stateside with Identity Automation

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Today we would like to announce a new partnership between Rozmic (the developers of emailcloud) and Identity Automation (a Texas based technology services company). You can find more information on Identity Automation here: http://www.identityautomation.com/ You can read about the Identity Automation Email Scan service here: http://www.identityautomation.com/solutions/email-scan You can see the custom branded interface to emailcloud ...

Hosted Exchange service launched

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

After nearly a year of planning and several months of testing we have finally launched our Hosted Exchange service! The service will be sold at £8.50 per user per month and includes: Exchange 2007 Mailbox 2GB Total Diskspace per user (optional upgrade to 4Gb) 1 x Public Folder per user Full Outlook functionality Full support for iPhone ...

Redundant Hosting Setup

Monday, September 29th, 2008

[caption id="attachment_70" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Redundant Servers"] [/caption] I have just spent the weekend helping a friend to build servers and setting up a hosting facility. It was a weekend of cables, kernels and RAID driver patches! A few months ago we sat down and started a planning session to evaluate the needs of ...

IaaS, the answer to an internet startup’s dreams but not a co-lo killer !

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Traditionally, if you wanted to setup an online business you needed money...and lots of it. With the advent of commercial Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers the economics of the internet startup has changed....for the better. In the past if you came up with the next ‘killer app’ you would be ...

Flexiscale from Xcalibre

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

We were lucky enough to get a visit from Tony Lucas from Flexiscale at the last meeting of the AWS user group. Tony told us the story behind Flexiscale and how he decided back in 2004 that what the world really needed was a proper utility computing infrastructure, so he and ...

Cloud Computing is not suitable for everybody.

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

My excitement for Cloud Computing is not matched universally...it is not the answer to everybody's problems. I already described on the AWS user group discussion list how it is not helpful for small web sites. Well, perhaps it is true that distributed computing 'as a service' is not suitable for ...

Review of Blacknight Internet

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

  Blacknight Internet "If you are looking for a hosting provider or a Co-Location partner, let me save you some valuable research time. Blacknight is the gold standard by which all others should be judged." If you are looking for a hosting provider or a Co-Location partner, let me save you some valuable ...