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Downloading OpenSolaris packages from pkg.opensolaris.org is extremely slow, at least here in Germany. As we were planning to upgrade our OpenSolaris boxes from 2008.11 to 2009.06 during a downtime, we needed a significant speedup.
Package Repository Mirrors
Fortunately, it’s pretty simple to setup a mirror yourself. Just grab the 7.2 GB disk image of the complete repository [...]
As you might remember, I recently interviewed Kent about the new Joyent Accelerators. I’ve now had a chance to give the new Joyent Accelerator template (version 2.1.3) a spin. The current release is 2.1.4 including some updates, which I’ll point out below. Joyent provided me with two Accelerators for one week to try ‘em [...]
Kent Langley is a Senior Director at Joyent, a cloud computing provider running and offering OpenSolaris Nevada based virtual servers, called Accelerators. Not only was he kind enough to answer my questions about his role at Joyent, details about the brand new Accelerator release, and Solaris, but he even brought in Ben Rockwood to give [...]
They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks and this adage applies doubly to system administrators. After all, you pay these same people to protect your data and systems with tooth and claw, right? The problem is that sometimes they protect it too well. Ever needed quick access to data in order to [...]
Evaluating hosting scenarios for our Ruby on Rails based web application, I finally had a good reason to dig deeper into “cloud computing”. While I was already watching the evolution of Amazon’s web services like S3 and EC2, a lot of offerings nowadays labelled as “cloud computing” were quite new to me. To better understand [...]
If your company is strapped for cash, buying a new file server for $10K is a lot of money. But you might not have to shell it out all at once if you consider leasing or cloud computing. Although you ultimately end up paying more, going in front of the board and explaining an extra [...]
