Archive for July, 2010

What’s Your Network Really Doing?
POSTED ON July 8th, 2010 by Aidan | No Comments » | Posted in dediserve, infrastructure, Linux, outsourcing |

One of the Most important aspects of any Web based solutions provider is monitoring what’s actually happening with your machines and what your customers are currently viewing, a key aspect of this is being able to monitor the traffic levels into your machine, to ensure accurate monitoring you need to ideally host these machines offsite on a completely different network to your hosted machines in order to get a third eye view on how things look.

So if you have your hosted servers currently with another provider , have a look at Dediserves current solutions which all make excellent third party monitoring servers. Below i have listed the five most powerful opensource monitoring tools which all run easily on dediserves servers.

1. MRTG - The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is primarily designed to monitor and graph traffic on network links. It is written in Perl, generates HTML with PNG image graphs, updated at configurable intervals. One of the best features is that it creates daily, weekly, and monthly graphs as well. You can monitor any SNMP variable you choose. MRTG is one of the most popular tools  for network monitoring and is used widely in industry.

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Financial Controller Wanted
POSTED ON July 1st, 2010 by Aidan | No Comments » | Tags:
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Location: Co Dublin

Salary: Neg on experience

The Role:
To facilitate the continuing growth and development of our rapidly growing business based in our head office in Co. Dublin and reporting to the Managing Director, the appointed candidate will be responsible and accountable for all finance and administrative related activities and, as a member of the senior management team, will contribute to the strategic development of the company.

Key Responsibilities include:

  • The successful consolidation and efficient management of all financial and administrative activities consistent with the demands of the business.
  • Lead initiatives on cost control management incorporating best practice approaches to benchmarking, KPI’s and performance management systems.
  • Drive change and improvements where necessary to ensure that all administrative functions are being performed in the most effective and efficient manner.
  • Further develop and implement meaningful management information systems across the range of functions in a dynamic procurement, processing, sales and marketing environment.
  • Control of cash flow including the compilation of annual budgets and reporting on performance to budget.
  • Support management in the processing of capital expenditure projects and specific business development opportunities.
  • Management of risk register ensuring that operational administrative and compliance disciplines are appropriate in all of the circumstances.

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