Dediserve Secures €1 million Investment for Expansion

One year into its operation and Irish virtual hosting provider Dediserve today announced that it has secured a €1 million cash injection to fund its growth.  The company is planning an aggressive expansion plan for 2010 to include local and European acquisitions, opening sites in additional data centres and increasing staff numbers.  The funding, which came from a private investment group, will be used to finance these plans as well as to market the company’s virtual server products and further develop its software platform.

With a growing base of international customers, Dediserve is planning to open up sites in data centres in the USA and UK as well as in Dublin in the second quarter of this year.    “We hope to enable customers to chose their virtual servers’ location this year as more sites are opened.  The ability to offer hosting with IP ranges that traverse national boundaries will be of great benefit to international customers with critical hosting needs,” said Aidan McCarron, founder and managing director.

McCarron is a former general manager of Register365 where he handled large accounts like Daft Media, Bord Gais and TV3.   Recognising the potential for server virtualisation he fostered the technology behind the company’s virtual server products.

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I know the “March Madness” Slogan sounds like something you should be hearing from the owners of furniture stores or supermarkets shouting about their super duper cheap prices, however it does sum up our current offering which is a 50% discount on all VPS servers with us for the first six months.

This means you can get a virtual private server with 512MB guranteed RAM, 30GB San storage, 500GB monthly bandwidth, Full root access,Free back-ups , network and CPU monitoring, remote reboots,allocate additional IP’s and install anyone of our Pre-installed application stacks for as little as €10 per month

Simply use Coupon Code “march-madness” when signing up to avail of the offer.

This offer is until the end of March for new customers.

Here at dediserve we generally only put together templates based on tested and secure operating systems that are a couple of years old, after all not many want to take the risk of hosting their data on bleeding edge OS releases, however we do have some customers that require the lastest release for their testing/development machines.

So i have put together this tutorial on upgrading your ubuntu 8.04 LTS template with us to the latest Ubuntu server release 9.10. Simply follow the steps below via the command line on your server.This needs to be done in stages from version 8.04 through to 9.10.

If you are upgrading a Live Machine ensure you have taken a Back-up Via your Dediserve control panel.

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One of the most recent Virtual machine operating systems we launched was fedora 12, this OS has proved very popular so i have put together a quick tutorial for setting up the webserver Lighttpd with PHP5 and Mysql.

About Lighttpd

Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility — all of these describe lighttpd (pron. lighty) which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, SCGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) lighttpd is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. And best of all it’s Open Source licensed under the revised BSD license.

lighttpd powers several popular Web 2.0 sites like YouTube, wikipedia and meebo. Its high speed io-infrastructure allows them to scale several times better with the same hardware than with alternative web-servers.

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We recently did an article for a magazine outlining what exactly all the Jargon means with regards Cloud computing and SaaS. So we have decided to put those details onto a site which can be found here http://jargonbuster.dediserve.com/

We hope to grow this site depending on feedback , so feel free to ask what something means which we will then add to the site, or provide an explanation yourself and we’ll be happy to add to the list.

Were happy to announce that we have launched the new www.dediserve.com website. The new website contains more details on our infrastructure as well as the services we offer including our popular templates sections.

An Overview to a pre-installed application stack templates – which we are adding to all the time.

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I suppose the first thing to clear up,the technologies and techniques currently being used in cloud computing are not new.Virtualization has been around for some years and is an integral part of all cloud based solutions. Most people would agree that there is nothing more to cloud computing than a simple re-packaging of existing technologies.

However if we ignore the current hype surrounding the term it’s become clear that cloud computing represents a complete shift in how computational resources are used and will be used going forward.One of the biggest benefits from this shift is “scalability”, In particular the ‘elastic’ nature of cloud scalability – the ability to effectively scale up infinitely but also to scale down as demand decreases.

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