SilverRack Blog
- Blog RSS Feed Now Available
- Just a quick note that an RSS feed is now available for the SilverRack Blog. You can use the url http://silverrack.com/posts.rss to subscribe to the feed.
Let us know if you run into any problems or incompatibilities.
- Posted April 25, 2008 16:46 by dave
- Web 2.0 Expo
- For the past couple of days I've been enjoying the wonderful city of San Francisco. I'm out here attending the Web 2.0 Conference and Expo. Its Day 2, and so far all of the sessions have been great. To celebrate the Web 2.0 Conference, I've put in a discount code good for $5 off the monthly price of any hosting plans - good for the length of your plan. Use code "web20expo" for the discount.
If anyone is out at the Expo, I hope you're having fun - and maybe we'll run into each other (SF Crawl Anyone?) Send me an email at dave [at] silverrack.com if you want to get together.
- Posted April 23, 2008 10:35 by dave
- Outgage - 4-17-2008 - 8am
- We had an outage incident this morning at approximately 8am Mountain time. The outage lasted approximately 1 hour. We apologize for this unplanned outage. Here's what happened - we had a switch that was having problems and needed to be reset. Generally, the reset should've been unnoticeable. However, once reset, it got into a reset cycle and reset itself a few times. It was necessary to power it down and bring it back up to correct the issue.
We sincerely apologize for this. We will review our contingency plans and make necessary improvements in our processes to make sure this type of outage does not occur again.
- Posted April 17, 2008 09:10 by dave
- Quick Rails Install Using Deprec
- Andre Lewis wrote a blog post called deprec2: Mongrel, nginx, Rails, mysql on Ubuntu 7.1 that shows you how to get your Rails site up on a SilverRack VPS. Using Deprec and Capistrono he had his Nginx+Mongrel environment up in about 3 hours. Check out his Blog post if you're interested in getting your Rails stack up and running on a SilverRack VPS.
- Posted March 24, 2008 08:25 by dave
- New Server - Jimco
- SilverRack is pleased to announce the addition of another server. Keeping with the tradition of naming our servers after fast vehicles, this one is named Jimco. Like the other servers, this one is fast. He's got 2 Quad Core Intel 5405 2.0gh CPUs, 8gb of Kingston 667mhz RAM, and a nice 3Ware Raid card.
SilverRack is always adding capacity to our VPS hosting infrastructure. We pride ourselves on keeping our servers under-utilized so that our customers will benefit from their full pwer. Jimco will help us maintain our excellent level of performance.
- Posted March 22, 2008 23:22 by dave
- Network Maintenance - 3/22/2008
- We performed a kernel update and replaced a switch for some of the servers tonight. Unfortunately, the servers affected need to be rebooted. I felt bad rebooting them - one of them had 275 days of uptime!
Everything appears to be working - but please let us know if something isn't right.
- Posted March 22, 2008 21:21 by dave