Switchlink, for several years has been one of the UK’s fastest growing Virtual Server providers and now, coupled with its manages services team, Switchlink have publically launched their Hosted Sage services. Unlike their Switchlink Unmanaged solutions, HostedSage.co.uk will specialize in provisioning and manages Private Cloud solutions for Small, Medium and Large enterprises across Europe. Built [...]
We have just added Ubuntu 10.04 onto our OpenVZ Virtualization platform and is now available to order.
Switchlink now offers TrixBox CE as an operating system choice on our Xen virtual servers. trixbox Community Edition began in 2004 as the massively popular Open Source IP-PBX project named Asterisk@Home. Since then, it has grown into the world’s most popular distribution of Asterisk with over 65,000 downloads per month. trixbox is known for its [...]
Following up on the email sent to our customers, there is a maintenance window @ 00:00 to 02:00 on the 16th of September 2010. This will effect all Switchlink customer and is Phase one of the upgrades. If you’re VPS is offline after 02:00, please contact support.
We have noticed that their has been some issues with our ticket system over the last 4 hours. Some emails were not getting through to our ticket system, for this we apologise. This was only effected replies to existing tickets, and not new cases. If you have submitted a response after 3:30PM and received no [...]
Due to a long number of service issues with Parallels, we have decided to move away from the Parallels products for out Virtual Server Products and move to SolusVM. This allows us to offer both OpenVZ (Virtuozzo) and Xen HVM products side by side. Please note, that during this period, access to the Power Panel [...]
This article will work on standard server or virtual server installations aswell. Our XEN HVM Virtual Servers are setup for eth0 to obtain it’s primary IP address via DHCP. This is true of all our Linux configurations. However, when you have multiple IP addresses on your virtual server, you will need to manually assign the [...]
Simply run the following to install YUM on your VPS. [text]rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/elfutils-libs-0.137-3.el5.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/gmp-4.1.4-10.el5.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/readline-5.1-3.el5.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-2.4.3-27.el5.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-iniparse-0.2.3-4.el5.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.8.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/expat-1.95.8-8.2.1.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/sqlite-3.3.6-5.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/elfutils-0.137-3.el5.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/rpm-python-4.4.2.3-18.el5.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.6.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/i386/CentOS/python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-5.el5.noarch.rpm [...]
Save time. Save money. Highly scalable and highly available network services from Linux make room for increased volumes without impacting on your contribution margin. With 99.9% guaranteed uptime, Linux virtual hosting can significantly reduce your outgoings and provide a resilient IT infrastructure for your company. What can Linux virtual hosting do for you? As more [...]
Find independence. Get virtual private server hosting with SwitchLink. Virtual private server hosting is a method of splitting a server, so that you can have your own fully-fledged operating system. This means that your server can be independently rebooted when you need it to. Have your own private cloud with VPS If you want all [...]