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The Quality Assurance team of cPanel discovered a bug within the SpamAssassin ruleset that will mark messages sent in the year 2010 (that’s today) and beyond with a higher spam score than expected. This bug can result in legitimate mail being flagged as spam.
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AUSWEB Web Hosting is an official cPanel authorized partner now
http://www.cpanel.net//apps/partners/partner-info.cgi?cid=614
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As its custom-built file system strains under the weight of an online empire it was never designed to support, Google is brewing a replacement.
Apparently, this overhaul of the Google File System is already under test as part of the “Caffeine” infrastructure the company announced earlier this week.
In an interview with the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM), Google’s Sean Quinlan says that nearly a decade after its arrival, the original Google File System (GFS) has done things he never thought it would do.
With this great little tool, now you can monitor your Linux based server easily on the go, right from your iPhone.
Bjango software’s iStat application provides a tool to monitor both your local iPhone performance stats, including the ability to free memory, as well as monitor your remote servers(Mac or Linux based) vital statistics. You can easily see memory usage, disk space, uptime & load averages and can also use the utility to ping servers and perform trace routes.
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After being in release candidate stage for several months now, the latest release version 3.5 of Firefox is finally available. Promising a host of improvements to speed and usability. Here’s a full list of what’s new in text or video rundowns to checkout while you download!
Also worth a mention Mozilla Labs have also released the latest version of Weave which requires version 3.5. Weave is handy service which allows you to securely encrypt and synchronise bookmarks and personal info across multiple browsers, allowing for automatic syncing your of Firefox at home and work or wherever.
With plans to support automated website logins, pretty handy! The new release includes automatic logins and OpenID support (for supported sites), and can sync your browser preferences across systems which is a big advantage over cross-browser solutions like Xmarks.
With Apple’s latest WWDC developer conference event held earlier this week, most of their announcements were of course overshadowed by news of the latest iPhone 3GS. Amidst some other major announcements such as Mac OSX SnowLeopard, and some shiny new MacBook Pro’s, Apple also released the latest version of their Safari web browser. Bringing it up to version 4, along with the status of “the fastest browser in the world”.
Cacti is an awesome tool for monitoring your network and keeping an eye on your current network status. You can quickly and easily add switch ports and browse your network via a very simple, easy to use web based GUI. However, Cacti uses SNMP and a number of other available methods to determine your network flow.Therefore, in the situation where you have VPS containers, Cacti itself can only monitor traffic by default on switch port where the hardware node is connected.
Here is a quick rundown on how to monitor network traffic by IP rather than monitoring network devices.
So you probably think we’re all sitting back at our desks, day dreaming about the weekend or betting on this weekends football matches but that’s definitely NOT the case. (Go the Roosters!) We’ve been busy making purchases in preparation for our new cloud infrastructure! Gigabit switches, Brand new (and amazingly powerful) Dell Servers, brand new cabinets in the new area of Sydney’s Equinix Data centre, and it’s all coming together rather nicely.
We’ve been busy doing research and development so that we can hit the ground running and we may just be the first Australian host to provide cloud services to the public. And we’re VERY excited about it.
Here’s some specifications of the servers we have purchased, for you personalities out there that have geek or technology tendencies.
Dell PowerEdge R710 servers each with:
Dual Intel Xeon X5550 – 2.66Ghz, 8M Cache, 6.40 GT/s QPI, Turbo, HT (These are the new Intel CPUs with performance improvements which absolutely destroy any previous benchmarks)
72GB RAM – Check out the below photos to see how each set of DIMM slots are assigned to each CPU, which from what I’ve heard – doubles the speed.
6 x 300GB SAS (15,000 RPM) Drives in RAID0 configuration. – Due to the way our cloud infrastructure will work, storage will be raided on the cloud layer so we don’t need to worry about mirroring data at the hardware level.
4 x Gigabit Ethernet ports – At this stage we will be using 2 ports per server, but soon enough we will increasing this to 4 or maybe 6 ports per server for better throughput.
Dual PSU Units – These are awesome, allowing us to actually change power supplies whilst the server is running.
Pingdom have performed a survey of the top 10,000 websites on the Internet to find out not just how many of them are using Google Analytics, but also the division between the legacy urchin.js script and the new ga.js script.
Pingdom found out two very interesting things:
That second point is very important. Google switched its development over to ga.js well over a year ago. It’s truly remarkable that almost half of the sites using Google Analytics have yet to migrate to the new ga.js script.
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