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A robust cloud deployment means having a well thought out data management strategy. At CloudSigma we offer free functionality such as snapshotting as well as tiered storage. It’s therefore possible to implement a great data management framework to ensure strong protection for the availability and integrity of the data you store in the cloud. In this post we share with …
You can use bash to automate many things for your cloud servers. At CloudSigma we use bash scripts with many of our library images to automate useful features. In this post we share with you how you can use bash to import SSH keys automatically on boot-up of your cloud servers. You can achieve this by combining bash scripts with …
Well, as you know, GNU & Linux are awesome. Why? Because we have Control Groups (CGroups)! In this post you’ll learn how to: Protect critical system processes for both memory and CPU. A walkthrough video implementing cgroups on a live running server Set up an example implementation of CGroups or SystemD slices. Keeping Everything under Control You can use CGroups …
***This competition is now closed*** At CloudSigma we love good design when we see it and, with many of us on the road frequently, we also appreciate having a powerful phone at our fingertips. That’s why when we got hold of the latest OnePlus2 64GB edition and a couple of invites we immediately thought it would be fun to give …
FinaThis blog post will show you how to use your RaspberryPI to drive an always on screen displaying an autorefreshing web page of your choice. If you are like us you want to have things like sales, pending customer tickets, system status’ etc. easily visible in your office; it’s very valuable. After this post you’ll be a ninja at quickly …
Doubling your performance We recently underwent a major infrastructure upgrade to our cloud in Zurich. And we’ll be rolling out similar upgrades across all our locations through the rest of 2015. One of the key elements to that upgrade was moving away from AMD based processors to Intel ones. As CEO I wanted to take this opportunity to write to …
One of the greatest advantages of being the CEO at CloudSigma is the opportunity to discuss with customers how they are using their cloud deployments across the wide range of industries. I learn so much from these customer insights. Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a webinar with many of our customers to share some of the insights …
aLogging into the CloudSigma website presents one with all that is needed to create, configure, and administer a CloudSigma virtual infrastructure, or IaaS. Alongside the menu for the various control panels, you will also see a link to the API documentation. The API enables programmatic access to all of the website functionality of the CloudSigma platform via HTTPS, returning JSON …
Technology innovation is accelerating at a greater pace. For companies to compete with the best, they have to be more innovative than ever before. But innovation means releasing better software to modern trends faster than ever. In order to create relevant software, enterprises are increasingly using adopt Agile methodologies to meet that challenge. Agile is essentially a fast iterative model …
I was recently invited to speak at DevTalks in Cluj, Romania. It proved to be an amazing even with loads of great speakers and topics. Well worth considering attending for any developers out there. I gave a talk on the root causes of outages and service disruption from our five years of experience running the CloudSigma cloud locations and some …
One of the great features about CloudSigma is the ability to choose optimized server settings that work great right out-of-the-box. At server creation time, if you aren’t using the quick server create tool, you’ll find under the Properties tab an “Optimize for” option. This allows you to tweak your server for Linux, Windows, BSD or even Solaris. In this blog …
Earlier this month, I spoke at ApacheCon North America in Austin, Texas. Being an open source software user for many years, I have a lot of respect for the Apache Software Foundation. As such, it was an honor to be invited and to give back to the community. At ApacheCon, the days were filled with presentations on topics ranging from …
