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jcoburn
Experienced as a Web Developer and Web Server administrator since 1994, in 1999 Jess set out to start a Web Hosting Provider that would leverage the latest in cutting edge and innovative technologies and make them available to businesses in a way that was easy to understand, easy to use and affordable. Today Applied Innovations is a recognized leader in Windows Hosting and specializes in ASP.NET, E-Commerce and Advanced Web Application Hosting.
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Posts by jcoburn
Clustrmaps.com — This seems pretty cool.
Mar 2nd
If it worked there should be a little map up above that displays the geographic locations my visitors come from (so I guess it will just have a big red dot over where my office is since I'm probably the only person that comes here).
Virtual Server SCSI or IDE drives and why is SCSI so damn slow?
Mar 2nd
So in the Virtual Server how to on setting up a 2 node cluster there was mention that you should select the SCSI drive emulatored because the IDE emulator was slower than the SCSI one and that this was true even if you were running on IDE disks. Strange, right? Virtual PC Guy recently wrote a new blog entry that really sums up the two versions of disks and why one over the other: http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2006/02/06/525487.aspx So now you're going to run off, create a SCSI disk and install the OS and wait and wait and wait and start cursing me because my god is that install taking a day and night. By the time it's done though you'll install the emulator and lo and behold it's a ton faster now. What gives? Why was the install so damn slow? It turns out that the SCSI drive isn't actually faster until you load the driver from the VM additions. So how do you get around this? Well, during install press F6 to load a 3rd party driver. If you go back to the Floppy disk in the machines configuration and and tell it to mount a known Floppy disk image you'll see there's one on there called something like "VM Additions SHUNT SCSI drivers" mount that bad boy and then go back to your install and have it read the drivers off of this disk. It will now use the VM additions SCSI drivers during the install and you won't have to wait 3 hours for the install to finish… This is a huge time saver… Oh and make sure you read that blog entry on the differences about the two and why SCSI versus IDE, it's a huge question that seems to get pounded time and time again.
LightBox Module
Mar 2nd
There's 20 or so new community server modules that were released recently you can find details about them here: http://developer.communityserver.org/default.aspx/CS.FirstCSModuleContent One of hte modules uses a little piece of javascript called LightBox that just outright rocks. I'm in the process (when I can find the time) of writing a photo gallery based on it in C#. It's pretty easy actually. It seems this module may have a bug in it that keeps the image reloading time and time again but it's pretty cool. Below is an image of hasselhoff (no I'm not a huge knightrider fan or anything like that) but this is a pretty funny picture and well it's great for demoing apps like this so click on it and enjoy the magic that is lightbox. — Jess
Asterisk@Home and Sangoma T1 cards work together
Mar 1st
I'm a big fan of asterisk and have a couple projects coming along nicely for it. But we use a sangoma T1 card and asterisk@home doesn't realy support it out of the box. Now asterisk@home isn't the only way to setup and install asterisk but for a Windows Dweeb like me, it's probably the easiest way to get 'er done. Here's a couple links that should help tremendously (and yes this is also serving as my own personal notepad as my favorites are almost as cluttered as my desktop as is my desk, my office, my car.. ahh yes once again I digress). asterisk@home: http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net sangoma's wiki with info on how to get it working with asterisk@home: http://sangoma.editme.com/wanpipe-linux-asterisk-atHome
Creating a Virtual Server 2005 Cluster
Jan 11th
Server Virtualization is becoming a major item these days and is many companies are adopting it. I've heard storys all over the place from development to production, from guys using it to setup test labs of multiple servers using only a handful of boxes to companies replacing 700 physical servers with less than 350. For the hosting industry I believe this technology is going to completely replace shared hosting and how we think of shared hosting today. SWsoft is one company who's server virtualization platform is already targetting hosting. The ability to move a virtual server to another physical server with almost zero downtime is simply awesome. Blah Blah Blah On to the goods. Microsoft has an outstanding article on Virtual Server Clustering that can be downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=09cc042b-154f-4eba-a548-89282d6eb1b3&displaylang=en If you're setting up virtual server, whether you plan to cluster it or not. I recommend you print out this article and read it thoroughly. It really does a great job of not only explaining the clustering setup but demonstrating just how powerful virtual server is and what can be done with it. Jess
