CoreOS is now available on CloudSigma!
What CoreOS is in their own words: CoreOS is a new Linux distribution that has been rearchitected to provide features needed to run modern infrastructure stacks. The strategies and architectures that influence CoreOS allow companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter to run their services at scale with high resilience. CoreOS is arguably one of the […]
Five tools you need for your cloud deployment
June 27, 2014 - 2:46 pm. Posted by Viktor Petersson
Tags: Big Panda, DevOps, Failover, High Availability, Munin, Nagios, New Relic, Pingdom
You have finally managed to get up and running with your application. It runs great. You’re happy and you’re customers are happy. One morning you wake up with an inbox full of angry customer emails and your Twitter feed full of complaints. While you were sleeping, something broke. You just didn’t know about it until […]
An introduction to failover in the cloud
May 31, 2014 - 10:13 pm. Posted by Viktor Petersson
Tags: Failover, HA, Heartbeat, High Availability, Linux, Nginx, Ubuntu
One of the hardest, but most important things to do when building your cloud architecture, is to eliminate Single Point of Failures (SPoF). What this means is that every mission critical service should be able to survive an outage of any given server. Some companies, like Netflix, have taken this to an extreme and created […]
Recent GigaOM Webinar: Hybrid Clouds, Cloud Security and Blending Customer Requirements
March 2, 2013 - 7:02 pm. Posted by Plamen Ganchosov
Tags: Amazon Web Services, Big Data, Cloud Computing, GigaOM, High Availability, IaaS, Reliability, Webinar
Last month, our CEO Robert Jenkins joined other industry thought leaders, including Paul Miller, Jo Maitland and Dana Gardner, in the GigaOM webinar: How to make Big Data Work in the Cloud. As Big Data and cloud go hand-in-hand and are often discussed simultaneously, the four panelists had a lot to cover, including hybrid clouds, […]