As a hosting company, high availability is crucial. Bytemark now has a 99% uptime guarantee and a 100% core network guarantee. But back in 2009, we experienced a major networking issue. Which, although quickly resolved, has had a lasting impact on the company in terms of what we learnt from the situation. What was the […]
Read moreAt Bytemark a couple of thousand people per month need to pay us money. We don’t offer barter or cash as payment options, which stops folk turning up to the office with livestock or pieces of eight (except sometimes on Talk Like a Pirate Day). The reason is that we’re only a staff of seven […]
Read moreMy own groundhog day is a debate with customers about what constitutes “typical” Linux security precautions. If you’re a Linux administrator of any experience, you might find some of the following statements rather familiar: My server is secure because Apache runs in a chroot. My web site is secure because I have a hardware firewall! […]
Read moreAfter investing more money in a core routing infrastructure than I paid for my flat, we thought it was quite important that, if the equipment went wrong, we could lean on our vendor to help us with immediate delivery of spare parts, 24/7 technical support and all the other stuff that goes with a proprietary […]
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