by Visakh S | Aug 24, 2015 | Docker, Server Management, Technical Support
1. Docker installed – Check. 2. Get image – Check. 3. Deploy container – Check. With Docker, deployment is as easy as that. Sysadmins and developers have moved away from the VPS days, and have settled into the easy lives of getting deployments done...
by Visakh S | Aug 14, 2015 | Docker, Server Administration
DevOps engineers have come to rely on configuration management tools like Puppet, SaltStack, Chef and Ansible for faster deployments and minimizing errors. However, the quest for the perfect deployment solution is still on. As is the fate of any code, Puppet...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Sep 10, 2012 | Server Administration, VMware
Virtualization is no longer a niche market. It is now a pre-requisite for success in webhosting industry. Gartner’s server virtualization report of 2011 mentions a virtualization market penetration of 40% for x86 server work loads. A study by Tier1Research on...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Aug 19, 2010 | Server Administration, VMware
Microsoft recently released the Service Pack 1 Beta for Windows Server 2008 R2. In its war with VMWare in the Virtualization sector, Microsoft has decided to showcase its own developments in the Windows Server virtualization platform via two key features: Dynamic...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Apr 18, 2010 | Server Administration, VMware
Sometimes, one is just not enough. When you’ve got one server with rocketing performance, you could very well make the maximum utilization of it. Obviously, I’m talking about Server Virtualization. We’ve had quite a lot of products out there in the...
