Jag sedan i mitten på 2007 haft en så kallad VPS, Virtuell Privat Server, hos GleSYS. På vilken bland annat den här bloggen, ny.heter.se, flygtillsolen.se och lite andra sajter körts.
Man kan tycka att en VPS redan är en så kallad molntjänst, då det är en virtualiserad server som tillsammans med andra virtualiserade maskiner delar på en fysisk maskin. I så fall har jag redan varit i molnet ett tag. Oavsett detta så har GleSYS nu lanserat en ny Cloud/Moln/VPS-tjänst som är deras tredje generations VPS-tjänst, med vilken man får mer kontroll över sin server. Det är möjligt att enkelt skala upp och ner sina servrar vid behov. Det går att klona sin server till en ny server, öka på och minska antalet cpu:er, minne, disk, transfer etc.
Igår tog jag steget och konverterade min Guld-VPS till deras nya tjänst och passade samtidigt på att minska ner mängden nätverkstrafik per månad och kunde då dubblera mängden tillgängligt minne och ändå tjäna några kronor per månad jämfört med tidigare. Snacka om prestandaskillnad. Det är helt otroligt vad mycket snabbare min server blev nu!
Jag är otroligt nöjd med GleSYS som VPS leverantör. Allt fungerar för det mesta perfekt och om något mot förmodan strular så är deras support helt outstanding! Oavsett om du är en nybörjare på VPSer och vill prova att ha din första egna server eller om du är en gammal räv som har full koll så rekommenderar jag GleSYS varmt.
(English summary: Use GleSYS for your hosting, they are great!)
“I’ve decided to follow someone at random,” O’Brien’s posting read at 3:55 p.m. on Friday. “She likes peanut butter and gummy dinosaurs. Sarah Killen, your life is about to change.”
“With Ubisoft’s fantastically awful new DRM you must be online and logged in to their servers to play the games you buy. Not only was this DRM broken the very first day it was released, but now their authentication servers have failed so absolutely that no-one who legally bought their games can play them”
When do they learn that they should focus on making great games that people are willing to pay for instead of crappy games with horrible DRM implementations?
Maybe you’ve heard about Google Buzz? It was introduced the other day.
Google’s aim with Buzz is to solve the problem with too much information and too low signal to noise ratio in the current social platforms like facebook and twitter. I was quite late to join twitter and so far I’m only following 76 other people but already I feel that it’s too much information coming in. Breakfast here, coffee there, someone going in a train somewhere, someone else at an airport. So much information it takes forever to keep track of it all.
However, I can’t ignore it because in between all the non-interesting things there are useful stuff like links, news updates, technology hints, opinions about something from someone I value. Small pieces of valuable information that I can use, that might be valuable at work, or just entertaining. It is these gems hidden in the information flow that makes it worth using facebook and twitter. It’s these gems that Google using their massive experience in search and finding relevant answers to queries try to make more accessible through their Google Buzz service.
Imagine a world where you just have to read the real interesting pieces of information and the boring social trivia stuff is automatically hidden away.
What a bliss!
Unfortunately Google is only rolling out Buzz to GMail users. The rest of us, like me, who have figured out that Google Apps is the perfect way to handle email for your personal domain are left out in the cold. According to this thread in the Google Help forum Buzz will be available to Google Apps users “…some time soon, and we appreciate your patience in the meantime.”
Which makes all us Google Apps users feel like second class citizens.
“In time for the Games in Vancouver and Whistler, we’re thrilled to be bringing this view to the world through Street View on Google Maps. How were we able to gather imagery at 7,000 feet (2,000 meters)? The Street View team’s constant experimenting yielded a snowmobile decked out with cameras to capture slope-level imagery of several runs on Whistler Blackcomb Mountains.”