I started out with iweb.com yearly ago (approx 5-6 years ago). I upgraded servers, changed servers completely but managed 2 servers during my time. If someone asks me to rank them, here is my ranking/review of iweb.com
iWeb.com review
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Category Archives: Reviews
Overcommitting with KVM
Someone pointed out a shocking fact in LET that KVM, the new popular virtualization type, can be over-committed even more then the infamous OpenVZ
The KVM hypervisor supports overcommitting CPUs and overcommitting memory. Overcommitting is allocating more virtualized CPUs or memory than there are physical resources on the system. With CPU overcommit, under-utilized virtualized servers or desktops can run on fewer servers which saves power and money.
Read it all at docs.redhat.com
also read the complete thread at LET Is KVM the next oversold VPS? for more enlightenment
Dropbox is insecure? A critical review
I am a die hard Dropbox fan, although the files that I share are neither too sensitive nor do I pay attention to the TOS (Terms of Service) of dropbox but this article is a nice read for anyone who is considering syncing sensitive files (private file that is).
If you are interested in using Dropbox, you may register for it by clicking here.
HostDime takes over VPSLatch.net
Update (01-April-2011): I contacted HostDime to ask for an offer that Adam accepted some months ago AND I was going to purchase that in June this year. HostDime staff was pretty professional to go through the tickets and offer me the same (right now OR when I later come and give reference to the ticket number with HostDime …. SOLID OFFER I must say)
Not an April Fool joke …
Find memory consumed by currently running processes on Linux?
I always had the question (when I am running plenty of scripts on a linux box as to what is eating up all the memory? Finding memory consumed by current running processes in your favorite linux distro. Luckily, I found a great Python utility (scriplet to be exact).
Facebook rolls out new Photo-preview feature
Some of you might have not noticed it but Facebook has rolled out a new Photo-preview feature silently to its HOME tab. So feed news like the one below
Will become
The expanded view in the modal window even has LIKE buttons, two browse buttons and a place to comment on it. Sleak!
What do you think about this new feature?
Skype on Android
Well, this seems like the coolest thing, getting Skype on Android. Continue reading
QuickWeb VPS Benchmark
Unix Benchmark results from QuickWeb using unixbench v 5.1.2. QuickWeb offers 2 Core i5 750 @ 2.67GHz cores on their Germany node.
Brilliant result!. I am really impressed with the benchmark numbers because this is pretty close to the benchmark results of 1024MB OpenVZ with another provider that I posted earlier.
Specs: 512MB OpenVZ running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32bit
HazeNet VPS Benchmark (latest from their XEON nodes)
Update (14-May-2011): HazeNet has been taken over by ThrustVPS / Rus Foster. Read more about it here
This benchmark is #2 in the series from HazNet, the previous one was done on their Core2Quad series and this one is on their latest XEON nodes.
Unix Benchmark results from HazNet using unixbench v 5.1.2. HazeNet offers 4 cores on their 1024 and 2048 packages.
Specs: 1024MB OpenVZ running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32bit
DirectSpace VPS Benchmark
Unix Benchmark results from DirectSpace using unixbench v 5.1.2. This is one of their $2/mo offers as advertised in this WebHostingTalk thread
Specs: 512MB OpenVZ running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32bit