Archive for October, 2009

Reducing Downtime with Virtualisation

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

I'm not going to explain in depth how virtualisation can reduce downtimes in general, or what you need to achieve that. But from todays practical experience, I'd like to give one example. Let's say you are running FreeBSD on a server, and you need to do a major upgrade (that is ...

Filemate SolidGo 48GB EC/34

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

To cut a long story short: massive speed improvement excellent for work with many small files (compile times for big projects reduced significantly, to give one example) good value for money (~ £125) And now the down-sides: getting very hot I have been using it for 4 months, until it died today. I'm almost sure that ...