Dear Nation,
As a result of an automated mail system update in the early hours of Tuesday, November 25th, Hosting Nation Clients would have been unable to send or receive email.
The specific reason for this was that after the update, the mail system defaulted to a simple default configuration leaving out custom settings. As a result [...]
Email Outages: November 25th, 2008
New Backup Technology Coming to Hosting Nation
In the next few weeks Hosting Nation will be activating a Continuous Data Protection backup solution to enable easier and smoother backups for our servers and users. We will be integrating R1Soft’s CDP solution to our arsenal of backup utilities in order to scale better as we grow and provide a better sense of comfort [...]
For Immediate Release – Hosting Nation moves to Softlayer facility in Seattle – October 23rd, 2008.
On October 21st and 22nd, 2008 Hosting Nation moved their servers to the Softlayer facility in Seattle. It’s handled via an internal transfer protocol that allows for lightning fast resolution, a process so seamless that it would hardly be noticed on the client side. The reason for the move was speed, by having servers in [...]
Virtualization within Hosting Nation
Virtualization has become one those solutions that hasn’t been destroyed by its buzzword hype. In fact it has led to another solution surrounded by buzzwords, Cloud Computing. Being mainly a Linux user, I have used virtual desktops and servers in both my personal and professional work.
I first started using virtualization when the Workstation product from [...]