Archive for October, 2009

Your Own Load Balanced Server Cluster for €80 P/M

With the ever increasing demand of more and more internet traffic , one of the most important facets of any popular website is being able to handle that traffic and remain stable and fast. Downtime can be disastrous forcing customers and also revenue to look elsewhere. What can be done? The solution is simple, redundancy, [...]

Assasinate That Spam

One of the constant daily/hourly battles faced by all providers and server administrators managing mail servers is spam – the bane of many sys-admins lives. And With Spam now accounting for 80 – 85% of all email traffic, it can be a time consuming job ensuring only proper mail actually gets delivered. Thankfully Justin Mason [...]

Using Ruby On Rails As Your Web Framework

As a follow on from the django framework post i wrote about previously , i will now talk about a second framework that we also offer pre-installed on our virtual servers, which is probably the fastest growing framework out there today and thats Ruby on rails , RoR is also an opensource web application framework [...]

Building Out A Cheap Redundant Clustered Architecture

As a server provider we constantly speak with customers about the best architecture for their server set-up. Ideally you are looking to provide a redundant, scalable server cluster with a good spec on a redundant platform at a good price. This is something Dediserve can now provide at exceptional value , via a single user [...]

Virtual Vs Dedicated Servers

This is one debate that will continue to raise its head time and time again over the coming years, as people look for the best solution for their site/application. As Dediserve offers both these options we’d like to think were well placed to offer out thoughts. At Dediserve we definitely see virtual servers as the [...]

The Importance Of Back-Ups

Back-ups in the IT world are very much like, house or car  insurance, its something you only ever think about when things go wrong. And unfortunately most companies especially SME’s tend to completely overlook back-ups until something goes wrong. This can be for a number of reasons such as: cost savings, not understanding the importance [...]

Taking The Pain out of Managing Your Server

One of the most daunting aspects of server management that often scares and confuses people is the “command line” this is the black screen you see when you first SSH into your server. Being able to manage your server via the command line is a great skill to have but like most skills takes time [...]

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