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Monthly Archives: February 2010

Virtual Hosting in the UK

Brits are notorious for being stuck in their ways, but with the growing trend of virtual hosting the UK, will there be much resistance? When it comes to technology, Japan and other areas of the Middle East are already one step ahead. Not only are they ahead, but they are happy to flaunt their technological [...]

Virtual Hosting and the Government

SMEs and independent organisations have been dipping their toes into virtual hosting for a while now, and the results are all positive – how will cloud computing cast its influence into the federal government? Just at the top of our heads, what percentage of today’s conventional IT methods do we believe that virtual hosting will [...]

Virtual Hosting and the BCG Matrix

All products go through a product cycle, and when looking at the BCG Matrix, virtual hosting services will go through a similar process of development. Virtual hosting has taken off as the latest form of computing. Making IT delivery more effective, more efficient and economically viable, virtualisation will give businesses of all sizes a better [...]

Plesk qmail returns the following error – Deferred 451 qmail-spp failure plugins chkrcptto child crashed

Plesk qmail returns the following error: “Deferred: 451 qmail-spp failure: plugins/chkrcptto: child crashed (#4.3.0)” This is caused by incorrect permissions on or a missinf /dev/null device. Remove any existing /dev/null and create a new one with the following commands. [text]~# mknod -m 666 /dev/full c 1 7 ~# chown root:root /dev/full[/text]

Virtual Hosting and Redundancy

Virtual hosting claims to completely eliminate planned downtime – but are the bigger unplanned disasters something that we should worry about, or does redundancy really have our data covered? North of Seattle in Washington lives Microsoft’s giant data centre. Like any other giant data centre, it was room after room of servers, all being suitably [...]

Virtual Hosting & Communications

Communications, externally and internally, is something that is, and should be valued in any company – virtual hosting can help to encourage the sharing of information and ideas. Sharing information is important in any company. Not only is communication an essential part of human interaction in everyday life, but it is a key ingredient to [...]

Beat the Virtual Hosting Myths

There is no doubt that virtual hosting is changing our world for the better, improving our finances, reducing our carbon footprint and giving smaller businesses a fighting chance, but we mustn’t get bogged down by the myths. You don’t find men without baggage. And you don’t find women without a wardrobe full of skeletons (or [...]