Asterisk is the world’s leading open source telephony engine and tool kit

Asterisk can be configured as the core of an IP or hybrid PBX, switching calls, managing routes, enabling features, and connecting callers with the outside world over IP, analog (POTS), and digital (T1/E1) connections.

To avail of this superb piece of opensource technology simple sign up for our virtual server with the pre-installed asterisk template and start configuring your telephony server.

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Django is one of a couple of pre-installed applications we currently offer on our virtual private servers , a summary on the django website describes it as “a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.”

What this actually means is , its saves you time  , alot of it. It does this by providing you with a large range of pre-installed modules which you can easily use and configure to suit whatever application your looking to build.
As Django is already pre installed on your server with us i can skip that part and explain how you go about how django is set-up and basic settings you might need to get started

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We here in Dediserve are huge fans of Xen, after all our whole virtualized platform is built on it. However we did throughly investigate all the existing virtualization technologies currently on the market when we went to build out our own platform.

So to save you the same hassle i will outline below our feelings on each technology we looked at both good and bad.

Xen

Pro’s

• Using Paravirtualisation technology It allows several guest operating systems to be executed on the same computer hardware concurrently
• You can physically reboot the node with no affect to any other users on the same harrdware
• You can install and set-up Iptables
• You do not share resources and are guaranteed resources
• Its Free

Con’s

• Guanteed resources means having less users on each machine
• Not as mature as some of the other commercial virtualisation technologies

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After just installing iptables, it will have no rules on the INPUT, OUTPUT or FORWARD chains:

# iptables -L

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

And the default policy on each chain is “ACCEPT”, which means there are no restrictions: any incoming and any outgoing packets are allowed.

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One of most useful things with regards running xen on your VPS server  , apart from the guaranteed RAM, and the ability to hard reboot your machine is also the ability to configure IPtables on your Machine.

Some of the main features functions available with Iptables is the following:

•    Build internet firewalls based on stateless and stateful packet filtering
•    Use NAT and masquerading for sharing internet access if you don’t have enough public IP addresses
•    Use NAT to implement transparent proxies
•    Aid the tc and iproute2 systems used to build sophisticated QoS and policy routers
•    Do further packet manipulation (mangling) like altering the TOS/DSCP/ECN bits of the IP header

In most Linux installs iptables has become a standard option, especially centos. There is a very good chance that iptables is already installed on your machine. Check by:

1.    Opening a terminal window (making sure to be logged in as root).
2.    Typing: # iptables
4.    If iptables is installed, you should get the following message: iptables v1.2.8: no command specified Try ‘iptables -h’ or             ‘iptables –help’ for more information
5.    If this message does not appear, then follow the directions below to install iptables.

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Where currently doing a special offer on our DedicatedA range of servers – at only €69.95 per month.

The Servers come with the latest Centos 5.3 Operating system.

Included with this dedicated server is the following:

• Full Root Access
• Remote Reboot Capability
• Unlimited Free IP Addresses with Justification
• Fully Redundant Cisco Network
• Secure state of the art data centre facility
• Web Portal for easy invoice management and ticket tracking
• 24/7 Technical Support

Any queries – Get in Touch

Dediserve is currently offering free wordpress installations on your virtual private servers with us.

This is to provide people who require the power , stability and functionality of their own virtual
server without having to worry about configuring the server and installing wordpress.

So if you have a busy wordpress blog or use wordpress to host your website and now wish to upgrade it onto its own server , for faster speeds , better security and more space , sign up for a virtual server at Dediserve (centos5.3 virtualmin) template and open a support ticket in your control panel, your wordpress blog will be installed shortly after.

We have now pushed live the ability to hard reboot your virtual machine from your control panel.

Feel free to leave feedback on additional features you wish to see added. We are adding new functionality all the time in
an effort to provide the best control panel possible to help manage your virtual machine.

Thanks to feedback from existing customers , we have now added the debian 5.0 (lenny) operating system as a template on our system. You can now easily install debian 5.0 from your existing control panel.