HE’s Director of IPv6 Strategy gave spoke on the current state of IPv6 at the INEX Members’ Meeting. During this talk that I decided that it was time to get the finger out and sort out our own IPv6 network.
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Here at Open Solutions, we’ve always used and advocated MySQL for high availability mission critical applications thanks to it’s built in binary replication features. This was a feature PostgreSQL sorely lacked but it is some thing that has also been … Continue reading
On our own Asterisk PBX server for our office and on some customer boxes with open SIP ports, we have seen a dramatic rise in brute force SIP attacks. They all follow a very common pattern – just over 41,000 … Continue reading
Welcome to the first in a new series looking at some of the solutions we have implemented. As time goes by, please select the Case Studies category for other similar posts. In today’s post, we look at network edges. A … Continue reading
Amazon have announced new micro instances on their EC2 platform which work out 75% cheaper than the next size up. These smaller instances can have a number of interesting uses… Continue reading
I came across this site today which has some good advice for MySQL. I’m particularly happy to see that Doctrine, a relatively new ORM for PHP which we’re big fans of, is gaining some traction. Continue reading