Brett Sheffield Talks About Spam and Backscatter

On Wednesday, Brett Sheffield spoke about Spam and Backscatter at Techmeetup Edinburgh.

The talk covers what we know about spam and spammers, and a real world approach to fighting spam.

Subversion Server Maintenance 18:00 tonight

At 18:00 this evening we will be taking down the subversion server for brief maintenance. This is expected to take no more than ten (10) minutes. This only affects customers with subversion repositories and their associated Trac projects.

NetBSD 5.0.2 available

NetBSD 5.0.2 has been released and is available to Gladserv's customers on request.

Short Notice Scheduled Maintenance - 6pm tonight

We're performing some short notice maintenance on 'octave' this evening between 1800 and 1900hrs. We expect downtime to be around 15 minutes.

This will affect some virtual server customers and IMAP services. Affected customers will be contacted individually.

I apologise for the short notice.

Gentoo Virtual Servers Available

I hope everyone is enjoying the festive season. In Scotland we've had a good snow covering for over a week now, which is unusual for here. With the weather so penguin-friendly, perhaps it is fitting that today we have made Gentoo virtual servers available. Give us a shout at Gladserv if you'd like to try one out.

We've been experimenting with FreeBSD virtual servers, but alas, we're not able to make them available to the public yet. FreeBSD support for Xen has been on and off (mostly off since Xen 2.0 days really). We've not seen much demand for them yet, but if you are interested, let us know. If we get enough requests we'll put some more R&D time into making this production-ready.

Cheers, and enjoy the rest of the season!

Brett and the Gladserv Team

Fedora 12 (Constantine) released

Constantine was released yesterday. Want to try out Fedora 12 on a virtual server? Give Gladserv a call.

Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") released

Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") has been released. Gladserv now has the Server Edition available as a virtual machine.