ZFS filesystem

How to resolve NexentaStor 3.1.1 installation problem

We’ve been having problems installing NexentaStor 3.1.1 on one of our storage servers using two Kingston quad-channel USB drives. The idea was to maximise storage capacity and utilise all available HDD bays, while running NexentaStor off two mirrored high-speed USB drives. The problem we encountered was that installation hang on “Updating Boot Archive” message. It was quite surprising that we were unable to find a workable solution, while this issue was extremely easy to resolve. The Dell PowerVault x300 server we used (this step will be very similar to any Dell PowerVault or PowerEdge server) by default emulates USB drives […]

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HHVM for high performance processing

HHVM is now available to Secure Managed VPS range

Some exciting news to our managed VPS customers: We now support HHVM! HHVM is the high-performance replacement for PHP, created and open-sourced by Facebook. You can read more about it at http://hhvm.com. Our Drupal 7 site has been moved from PHP over to HHVM and we saw the noticeable performance increase. For some time we will only be supporting RedHat 6 and 7, CentOS 6 and 7, Apache web server running with mod_proxy and Fast-CGI. Go and grab a Secure Managed VPS now and request HHVM support during the order process. Customers wishing to try HHVM with our Cloud VPS range, simply […]

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