MySQL Maintenance: Thur 17 April 22:00-23:00
We’ll be doing some maintenance work on the MySQL cluster next Thursday, the 17th April starting at 22:00 and taking around an hour. There will be a couple of seconds interruption to service at 22:00...
View ArticleNGINX 0.6 for Ubuntu Dapper
We’ve backported NGINX 0.6.29 packages from Debian experimental to Ubuntu Dapper and included the fair proxy balancer module. It’s in our testing repository at the moment so give it a whirl (it will of...
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Beta testers required to trial new Content Delivery Network (CDN) service
We’re currently working on offering a Content Delivery Network (CDN) service for Brightbox customers. This will accelerate the serving of your static assets, distributing them around the globe and...
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New: Brightbox CDN (Content Delivery Network) service
I’m pleased to announce we’ve partnered with CDNetworks, a global leader in CDN technologies, to provide the new Brightbox CDN service – another significant addition to the Brightbox service portfolio....
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New Relic RPM now included on Brightbox 512 and above
FiveRuns announced last week that they would be ceasing the Manage service from 25th August. We have partnered with FiveRuns since December 2007 to bundle the Manage service with Brightbox products so...
View ArticleRuby Enterprise 1.8.7-2009.10 Packages for Ubuntu Hardy
We’ve built 32bit and 64bit Ubuntu Hardy packages for Ruby Enterprise 1.8.7-2009.10. These packages are still in beta, and this is quite a major change from the default Hardy Ruby interpreter,which is...
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New: Performance graphs (beta)
We quietly rolled out a new feature into the Brightbox control panel a couple of weeks ago, adding performance graphs for each of your Brightbox virtual machines. To view graphs for a virtual machine,...
View ArticleApache x-sendfile module for Ubuntu Hardy
We’ve just added Caspar Clemens Mierau‘s package for the Apache x-sendfile module to our Ubuntu Hardy package repositories, so now it’s trivially easy for Brightbox customers to start using it. We’ve...
View ArticleShared MySQL improvements
Over the last few weeks we’ve been working on scaling our shared MySQL facilities. Until recently, we’ve been able to run a single (albeit hefty) shared MySQL cluster but due to growing demand we’ve...
View ArticleRuby Enterprise 1.8.7-2010.01 Packages for Ubuntu Hardy & Lucid
We’ve built new 32bit and 64bit Ruby Enterprise 1.8.7-2010.01 packages for Ubuntu Hardy and Lucid. The new packages are now the default on new Lucid beta boxes. For Hardy, as before these packages are...
View ArticleRuby Enterprise 1.8.7-2010.02 Packages for Ubuntu Hardy & Lucid
We’ve built new 32 & 64bit Ruby Enterprise 1.8.7-2010.02 packages for Ubuntu Hardy and Lucid. The 2010.02 release of Ruby EE includes a number of backported fixes for critical bugs in Ruby...
View ArticleNew: Dedicated MySQL services
One of the many benefits of the Brightbox service is access to our shared MySQL clusters. The shared MySQL service enables a low barrier-to-entry and is perfect for many customers, but there are...
View Article64-bit Brightboxes now available
From today, you can build 64-bit Lucid & Hardy Brightboxes! 64-bit boxes include the usual Brightbox Ruby/Rails stack and deployment tune-up, including our Ruby EE packages, atop a 64-bit userland...
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