As part of our ongoing commitment to offering our customers cutting edge solutions on our cloud platform, we are delighted to announce the launch of our new server monitoring tool, which is now live for all customers servers in their accounts.

To activate simply click on your server in your control panel, click on the “monitoring” tab and switch “on” , you can then select which port/service you wish to monitor.

Currently the service provides ICMP probe checks and a service check at 10 minute intervals complete with instant email notifications.

The service provides customers with the last application and service monitoring event logs for real time visibility on the operation of their infrastructure with 30 day uptime charts.

We have a detailed roadmap of add-ons that will be launched with the service in the coming weeks and months, you can also leave feedback on features you wish to see and any bugs you encounter via the survey link at the top of all monitoring tools.

All screenshots will be added to our facebook page also – feel free to “like”

At Dediserve HQ, we believe in innovating and delivering on the true promise of what cloud can deliver for Infrastructure as a service – so we are delighted to announce another world first -  a multi-site cloud server failover solution with inter datacenter routing. This product will allow customers with mission critical solutions to achieve 100% uptime at all times – even during a maintenance window or failure.

What is it?

The multi-site virtual machine failover process with inter-datacenter routing consolidates a number of servers behind a single routed IP address at the same datacenter as the primary server being protected. In the event of a failure affecting the primary machine, traffic is dynamically updated within 60 seconds to re-route traffic to a replicated server(s) in a secondary datacenter.

In english, we simply replicate one or more of your servers from one cloud location to another. You then point your DNS at the IP we give you and, hey presto ! Your cloud machine can now be failed over to another datacentre at will. We can monitor a wide range of services to initiate a failed state, and will notify you by Email, SMS, Twitter DM or Prowl alert!

You can even choose to failover traffic, to maintain 100% uptime even during maintenance, upgrades or a cloud machine reboot, etc.

The Cost?

Completely FREE!!! -  the only cost for the solution is the second identical machine on the second cloud platform, we are not currently charging at all for the actual solution itself. If you sign up now this will never change for you.

Want more?

The solution, as well as monitoring your cloud machines, failing over traffic, and notifying you, also provides comprehensive Intrusion Detection and Prevention technology, including DOS and DDOS prevention – so your services are not only made amazingly redundant – but secured too!!

How do I get started!?

There are just two steps!

1 – Order a new cloud machine or VDC in a location different to your primary servers -     

2 – Order the failover service – including the primary and secondary server details!

That’s it – we take care of the rest and set up all the replication for you!

Any questions – let us know!

We are going to be giving away some cool dediserve goodies, including these stress clouds.

So, how do i get one?

Between now and the end of the month (31st October 2011) with all new purchases you will automatically receive a new stress cloud as well as go into a weekly draw for a dediserve hoodie (images to follow shortly)

We will also be doing other weekly draws and giveaways for stress clouds and hoodies, so ensure you are following us on Twitter and Facebook to ensure your in the running…

Or sign up for any dediserve product now to instantly get one!

One of the main concerns for most people when moving their infrastructure to the cloud is  the control and portability of that data -  can I download a copy of the machine image and move to another provider if I so choose?

Well now, thanks to our crack team of geeks, we are delighted to announce a beta release of a machine image tool that allows you to take and download a complete image of your server with us – one of the first cloud providers in the world to allow this.

This is currently only live on our London platforms, we hope to roll this out on the other platforms shortly.

To download simply take a back-up of your machine and you will see a green arrow beside the back-up, click on this to download a complete image of your machine. This image is in OnApp Xen Machine image format – and can be uploaded directly to any other OnApp or many Xen powered cloud offerings.

We work hard to win your business, and just as hard to keep it – we don’t believe in any form of lock in or lock down !

We are very excited to announce public availability on our new London Cloud platform!

c1.lon2 Is now available on all sign-ups for new and existing customers to deploy cloud machines and cloud nodes for virtual datacentres.

Situated in the heart of the London Docklands Digital Hub, this deployment advances our cloud platform technology and provides an unparallelled location for UK traffic!

Prime location – Situated in the heart of London Docklands with probably the best connectivity in the UK
Tier 3 – long established data centre, built in 2000, with an impeccable record.

Harbour Exchange Square already offers a leading choice of carriers with resilient network access and POPs onsite
Direct access to LINX, the London Internet Exchange as well as world leading global peering and connectivity options

Our London cloud can be scaled from as little as 256Mb to 140GB RAM per instance!!

Talk to us today about how you can use Lon2 as a High availability real time fail over location for resources you have in Dublin on Lon1!

We’re delighted to announce our iphone app is now live on itunes to download.

You can simply download direct from the itunes store Here or through your mobile device.

Easily manage your cloud server on the go from anywhere!

We are delighted to announce our new Partnership with SpamTitan!

SpamTitan provides the most comprehensive solution to email threats on the market today. A highly effective anti spam engine guarantees protection from spam, viruses, Trojans, phishing attacks and other malicious online threats.

As part of the agreement dediserve will be providing the cloud platform for spamtitans appliance on demand solutions, allowing customers to now deploy their SpamTitan server fully configured and ready to go in minutes.

http://www.spamtitan.com/products/spamtitan-appliance-on-demand

Virtual Cloud Data Centre clients can now deploy spamtitan servers through their dediserve control panel for their own use or to resell to their customers. All deployed machines come with a 30 day trial license, contact spamtitan to avail of a license key.

We are delighted to announce our new Partnership with Cloudflare! Cloudflare offer an exciting cloud based reverse proxy service that improves the performance and security of your site and is perfect for high traffic or demanding websites and apps!

Simply deploy one of our new cPanel / CloudFlare templates and you will be up ad running in seconds, with full access to and control of your CloudFlare settings all from within your dediserve cloud machine!

Locate the Cloudflare link in your Cpanel

Click to Activate Cloudflare for the account

Signup or provide login details for your cloudflare account

Your Account is now being protected and accelerated by cloudflare

What is CloudFlare?

CloudFlare is a performance and security service that we provide to our customers. On average, a website on CloudFlare loads twice as fast, uses 60% less bandwidth, has 65% fewer requests and is way more secure.

What is the association between Dediserve and CloudFlare?

CloudFlare is a third-party vendor that is offering CloudFlare to Dediserve customers through a partnership. This partnership is in beta.

We are continually striving to make the service the most effective, so let us know what you think. You can contact either Dediserve or the CloudFlare Team at support@cloudflare.com.

How does CloudFlare’s technology work?

CloudFlare works as a reverse proxy. What this means is that once your website is part of the CloudFlare community, your web traffic is routed through CloudFlare’s global network.

CloudFlare’s network stores copy of your static files closer to your visitors, which means they are delivered more quickly than before. We cache resources such as CSS, JavaScript and images. You do not have to make any changes on your end, CloudFlare’s technology automatically decides which resources to cache based on file extension names. We do not cache dynamic content. CloudFlare also does compression for every request.

CloudFlare’s network also blocks threats and limits abusive bots before they hit your server, which means less wasted bandwidth and server resources for you.

Where are CloudFlare’s data centers located?

CloudFlare’s network currently has 12 locations. San Jose (US), Los Angeles (US), Chicago (US), Washington, DC (US), New Jersey (US), Dallas, Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo. At each of these nodes, CloudFlare does caching and bot filtering. We will be adding additional data centers in London and Miami in July 2011.

What types of websites can use CloudFlare?

Almost all websites can use CloudFlare. CloudFlare works for both static and dynamic websites.

CloudFlare is not suitable for websites that stream video or audio directly from their origin server. If you use YouTube or Vimeo for the videos embedded on your website, then that is compatible with CloudFlare.

My website has SSL. What do I do?

If you have SSL, your website can use CloudFlare, however there is an extra step. If your SSL is on its own sub-domain (i.e. SSL), then ensure that this sub-domain is marked with a gray cloud. If your SSL is on your root domain or www, then you have to upgrade to the paid, Pro service and follow the directions outlined here.

Will CloudFlare accelerate and protect my root domain?

CloudFlare can only accelerate and protect CNAMES. Since your root domain is an A record, we recommend that you forward your traffic to ‘www’ through your .htaccess file. If you do not forward the traffic, then any traffic to www.mydomain.com will be accelerated and protected by CloudFlare (and shown in the statistics) and any traffic to mydomain.com will not be served by CloudFlare.

Are there sub-domains I shouldn’t enable with CloudFlare?

Sub-domains on CloudFlare are marked with an orange cloud. Sub-domains not on CloudFlare are marked with a gray cloud.

The CloudFlare network can only proxy web traffic over port 80 and 443. The following sub-domains should be marked with a gray cloud to prevent performance issues:

cpanel

direct

ftp

ghs.google.com

mail and webmail

mysql

nameservers (NS1, NS2)

secure* (unless you enable CloudFlare SSL)

View the full list of sub-domains here:

http://www.cloudflare.com/wiki/What_subdomains_are_appropriate_for_orange_/_gray_clouds

Can I enable CloudFlare on a wildcard (*) sub-domain?

No, for security reasons, CloudFlare does not proxy traffic to a wildcard sub-domain. You have to explicitly list the sub-domain as a CNAME in your DNS records to be able to activate CloudFlare.

Can I enable CloudFlare on my root domain (i.e. mywebsite.com) that is an A record?

If you activate CloudFlare through Dediserve, CloudFlare can only accelerate and protect CNAMEs, not A records, which often includes the root domain. If you have traffic that goes to your root domain and you want to accelerate and protect the traffic using CloudFlare, you can add a redirect to ‘www’ in your .htaccess file. You should work with Dediserve, but as a general outline, a redirect looks as follow:

RewriteEngine On
# Rewrite added for CloudflareInstall - mysite.com
# Wednesday 25th of August 2010 04:59:42 AM
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I activated CloudFlare from my Dediserve account. Do I also get an account on CloudFlare.com? What is the difference?

Once you activate CloudFlare on Dediserve you also get an account at www.cloudflare.com. The basic statistics and settings are shown in your Dediserve control panel. To see more statistics, your Threat Control panel and all the CloudFlare settings, you have to log in to your www.cloudflare.com account.

(Hint: To access your account the first time, enter the email address associated with your Dediserve account and use the “I forgot my password” feature).

I tried CloudFlare and have an issue. What should I do?

When you enable CloudFlare, there should be no noticeable difference to your website. If your site is loading slowing after enabling CloudFlare, there is most likely a problem. First, disable CloudFlare by clicking the orange cloud so it becomes gray. Second, report the issue to Dediserve. The Dediserve team will work with CloudFlare to resolve the issue.

Following Feeback from users, we have now added the ability to add multiple contacts to a single account.
You can specify the contact privileges if you have different users from accounts and technical both using the management interface, so each user will only see details relevant to their department.

1. When logged into your dediserve account, click on the “contacts” link on the right hand side under the ” My Account” Heading.

2. Set the new contacts users privileges

Our Customers speak, we listen! Due to a large demand for FreeBSD, we are proud to announce we have now launched FreeBSD as part of our pre-built template selection.

To Build your FreeBSD server , simply login to your dediserve control panel click on “create machine” and select
FreeBSD 8.2 x64 from the drop-down list under templates, and have your machine online in mintues.

FreeBSD makes an ideal Internet or Intranet server. It provides robust network services under the heaviest loads and uses memory efficiently to maintain good response times for thousands of simultaneous user processes.

To see the vast selection fo resouces and tools that come with FreeBSD check out the official FreeBSD Project Page