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Comment on More Strange Dreams – This Time with Explosives! by Brad Lewis

Brad Lewis — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:58:17 +0000

That was a dream? I could have sworn that happened one year! But then again, maybe my mind was clouded after overindulging in the bliss that is BBQ pork ribs.

Comment on Automation + Innovation = Success by Jeff H

Jeff H — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:00:09 +0000

I often say that SL executes better than anyone in the business. Also, I find your dev team incredibly responsive to issues we discover. We touch more than 100 systems at SL ever week spread over dozens of accounts. With that level of activity, portal issues are sure to crop up — fortunately, due to the responsiveness of your dev team, the issues are typically fixed in a matter of days if not hours.

Making IT simpler is a key goal at rackAID. As system integrators, we often have to meld our own services, SL’s hardware and partner solutions into an integrated solution for our clients. SL’s innovations make our integration tasks easier. As a result, our mutual customers benefit from faster deployment times, more robust solutions and lower costs.

Comment on Get with it! by Jason J. W. Williams

Jason J. W. Williams — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:51:22 +0000

Would love to give you guys a call…the minute you offer OpenSolaris on CloudLayer. You’re at the top of our list, but we can’t move until you do.

Comment on Droid Power! by Michael

Michael — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:57:17 +0000

Hi, can you share how you were able to connect via VPN and SSH? I believe it requires some sort of root access?

Comment on Droid Power! by Paul

Paul — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:41:13 +0000

You need to “borrow” some of the power strips from the DC, knock up a quick app to toggle the strip power on/off and hey presto – now the droid can control your coffee machine

Comment on Custom Server Solutions by Diego

Diego — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:28:31 +0000

Softlayer indeed does offer great customization possibilities, you guys have the best array of options in the hosting industry IMO

Comment on Custom Server Solutions by Jeff H

Jeff H — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:33:28 +0000

The ability to customize hardware was one of the reasons I was initially drawn to SoftLayer. Just a few years ago, server providers routinely scaled server components as bundles. If you wanted 2TB of storage, you also had to get 8GB of RAM and dual CPUs.

This approach is not very cost effective, especially when deploying task-specific servers. For example, an NFS server needs fast disks and a moderate amount of RAM but a low end CPU. Just a few years ago, the disk system I wanted would be bundled with high end CPUs and a lot of RAM at twice the cost.

By having choices, we can tailor a server to our client’s requirements and save them money.

Comment on SLXXXXX Twitter Log by Eric Caldwell

Eric Caldwell — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:56:01 +0000

This was a great blog post on the VS security feature. As soon as I read it, I added the VS app to my iPhone and enabled both servers. Good to know SL is on top of things. One thing to consider is logging in via just the onetime password/token the VS app creates. This would make it even easier to login while still providing strong protection.

Comment on Stop using Internet Explorer 6! by Steven Rogers

Steven Rogers — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:28:13 +0000

@Jeff – Yes, same here. I simply make sure the website isn’t a complete failure in IE6 and move along.

Comment on Stop using Internet Explorer 6! by Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:22:42 +0000

Amen, brother. We ignore testing in IE6 most websites that we build now. We’ve found that less than 10% of users are still using IE6, and it’s not worth the time to troubleshoot and hack our CSS just to make it work with this antiquated browser. Good article.