About two weeks ago we completed a pretty big project to migrate Spinn3r’s operations from ServerBeach over to Softlayer. The entire project, from start to finish, too just over one month. I’m also proud to note that not a single customer noticed any downtime or any issue with our migration. It cost a bit more [...]
Categories: debian,linux,serverbeach
I’ve now had about 24 hours to play with the Mtron SSDs and had some time to benchmark them. The good news is that the benchmarks look really solid. The drive is very competitive in terms of performance. I’m seeing about 100MB/s sequential read throughput and 80MB/s sequential write throughput. I’ve had some time to [...]
Categories: clustering,debian,linux,mysql,open source,SSD
For some reason I decided to plot the Debian release schedules. I was thinking that it would form an exponential growth curve – I was wrong (somewhat). From 1.2 to 3.1 it’s a somewhat exponential curve if you do smoothing. Below is the release schedule with the number of months from the pervious release. The [...]
ServerBeach invited a few of their larger customers out to dinner tonight after LinuxWorld. Great fun and I always enjoy hanging out in North Beach.
Categories: debian,linux,open source,san francisco,serverbeach
There are a lot of hosting providers out there that only provide RedHat or treat Debian with a lower priority.There are some big folks using Debian. Right now (off the top of my head) I know that the following companies use Debian.
Categories: clustering,debian,linux,open source