Often, we’re asked: why Open Hosting over Amazon’s AWS? And our answer begins with the two design principles that define our service:
 

1. Cloud servers that behave like real server: Our platform can be understood using familiar terms: server, drive, IP address, public network, and private network. This familiar vocabulary promotes easy adoption and easy migration.

 

2. An open source foundation and an open outlook: Built on Linux-LVM, our platform will run your software without modification. Upload an existing server, upload an ISO, or start from scratch with a pre-installed system: however you start, we provide an execution environment designed to accommodate software without modification. And, as easy as it is to deploy infrastructure with Open Hosting, it’s just as easy to download your servers and go elsewhere.

 

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** Successfully Completed** – Just in time for spring cleaning, Open Hosting is upgrading several network switches and power units at our facility in Miami. This upgrade will result in disruptions to both public and private network infrastructure: your servers will have their connections to the Internet and to their VLANs disrupted. In addition, the host servers will be rebooted, which will in turn reboot your servers.

The scheduled network downtime is from April 20th at 10PM EST to April 20th at 11PM EST, during which period your servers will be unavailable and rebooted once. We don’t expect to need the entire hour, and will make every effort to ensure a quick upgrade.

This is our first planned downtime at East1 for 2012 and we hope it is the last. Yet, with the new gear comes some immediate benefits:
 

• an additional level of network redundancy
• faster public network interface
• faster private network interface for VLANs
• additional network protections from things like DOS attacks
• lays the foundation for some exciting new features and possibilities…

jclouds is an open source library that helps you get started in the cloud and reuse your java and clojure development skills. Their api allows you freedom to use portable abstractions or cloud-specific features.

Open Hosting is among the many cloud hosts supporting jclouds.

See “Supported Providers” for o.j.provider/openhosting-east1

We’re proud to sponsor PGDay NYC 2012.

PGDay NYC 2012 will be held on April 2, 2012 at the Lighthouse International in New York City. PGDay NYC is an intensive one-day PostgreSQL symposium with technical sessions focusing on the core topics you need to succeed with PostgreSQL. It will cover topics for users, developers and contributors to PostgreSQL.
 
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After creating a Windows pre-install, we recommend you follow these steps to patch and secure your newly deployed Windows server:
 

1. Specify at Least 2 Cores: We’ve found that Windows gets happier with more cores, and we recommend at least two. While the server is shut down, navigate to the server configuration page to explicitly set the number of cores.
   

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Our VLANs are a great way to privately network your servers. The physical network infrastructure over which the VLANs run has no contact with the Internet. And, best of all, network traffic over VLANs is not metered.

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