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LeaseWeb enhances virtual environment with CloudLinux
It’s our aim to make things easier and quicker for our customers, so over the past few weeks we’ve been rolling out CloudLinux OS into our web hosting environment. The new OS is designed to give customers increased control over their hosting.
Biggest @ AMS-IX
In my previous posts (Traffic Quadrupled) I mentioned the speed our total traffic is increasing. At this moment, our total traffic is almost hitting 500 Gbps (in April we did 300Gbps)!!
Last week, we connected another AMS-IX connection, which gives us a total of 120Gbps connection. At the very moment it was connected, we were already doing over 100Gbps at the AMS-IX. This makes us the largest traffic sending/receiving party on the largest internet exchange of the world! According to the AMS-IX there is no other company connected to the AMS-IX transmitting more traffic via the exchange as we do.
AMS-IX traffic @ LeaseWeb
Data center energy savings: be realistic
Data center energy saving is a hot news-item. Google announced experimenting with floating data centers in the sea, Sun is building a data center in an old coal mine below the surface which saves 50% on energy. Although energy reduction is a must, it is important to be realistic in the options available.
Traffic quadrupled!
This week we have broken the 300 Gbps (!!) traffic barrier we were facing several months. After the big increase we had since september 2007 where we went though the 200Gbps barrier� in October, only 6 months later we already exceeded the 300Gbps.
European WinPHP Challenge
The WinPHP Competition registration will close end of business on Friday April 17th want to go to Vegas register NOW!
On the March 23 we announced the WinPHP Challenge the competition for PHP programmer to create the app they always wanted to write and have the opportunity to win a trip to the MIX 2010 conference in Las Vegas. This competition is run by the Dutch PHP Conference, Microsoft and LeaseWeb.
Filtering: the pilot
Since a report by the WODC (see Filtering The Internet) stated that it is unclear whether filtering is effective or not, we have been in contact with the Ministry of Justice and Meldpunt Kinderporno (Hotline combating Child Pornography) and discussed ways of reducing child pornography on the Internet. Although we, as a Service Provider, are not responsible for the content our customers put online, we find it good corporate governance to do everything we can to reduce this problem. As a result we will start a pilot soon with filtering images.
Virtual Hosting Expensive?
More and more clients of LeaseWeb, mainly Corporate and higher SME, decide to go for a hosting environment in which virtualization software plays an important role. Still the discussion remains whether virtualization is a good investment. Especially in these times where you need to weigh the value of every penny that’s being invested, cost stays part of the virtualization investment discussion. Does virtualization save you any money? Does it give you a good ROI?
Filtering the Internet
During the last year there have been several discussions about filtering content on the internet. Should this be dealt with by the government (creating better legislation) or should ISPs come with a solution?
Last week the WODC (Research and Documentation Centre) published an interesting report (Dutch with English summary) about the technical and legal possibilities of blocking and filtering child pornographic material on the internet. In their research the WODC tried to find an answer to the question: what are the technical posibilities of filtering and blocking content on the internet and what are the legal possibilities?
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Honeypot Project
Recently we have started a small honeypot project within our network to monitor and analyze malicious requests. With this information we can make our network more secure.
New: VMware VPS!
Since two days we are offering new virtual servers on our VMware platform.
In the recent months we have deployed our new VMware platform to start hosting VPS. After some testing by our engineers and some customers, we are now ready for production. Starting from EUR 99,-/month you will get a full VMware VPS with (almost) all features (DRS/HA/Vmotion/GUI).