Libre Hosting News & Blog

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwahl Now Available!

admin — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:35:35 +0000

Libre Hosting is pleased to announce the availability of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwahl -

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/ReleaseNotes

http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/whats-new

This is the latest release of Ubuntu – With support for both OpenStack, as well s Eucalyptus, as well as lots of other new features.

So we can offer several levels and types of Private Cloud services and provisioning - send us a note at “info at librehosting dot com” for more info.

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwahl is now the default OS of choice for all our new VMs. Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) is also available, for those who want the longer 2-year upgrade cycle as opposed to the 6-month upgrade cycle of the regular Ubuntu releases.

What’s new in Ubuntu 11.04? from Canonical Design on Vimeo.

Centos 5.6 Now Available

admin — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:49:17 +0000

Centos 5.6 has been released, and is now available in our dropdowns for selection.

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-April/017282.html

http://centos.org/

Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available.

Django 1.3 Now Available

admin — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:55:20 +0000

Django 1.3 is now available for hosting.

http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2011/mar/23/13/

As always, we’re happy to install any Django plugins you want when we set up your instance.

We can also help build your site, please email info at librehosting.com or joe at same.

Debian 6 and All Three Debian Flavors Available!

admin — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:10:42 +0000

In keeping with the announcement of Debian 6, we are now offering Debian 6 in our OS selection dropdowns.

http://www.debian.org/releases/

Also, in response to customer requests, we are now offering ALL THREE of the Debian flavors, Stable, Testing, and “Unstable” (Sid), which isn’t necessarily unstable, it’s just “Expectations management”) .

As always, if you want another version or want a legacy version (We still use Debian 4 on one of our internal servers ), just ask for it in the “Notes:” field when you place your order.

Fedora 14 Now Available

admin — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:34:33 +0000

For hosting – select it from the dropdowns.

WordPress 3.1 now available

admin — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:45:58 +0000

[UPDATE Feb 25th 2011: Updated to 3.1]

For our hosted blogs, and multi-WordPress instances.

We have annual hosting plans for WordPress, please email info at librehosting dot com, or joe at same for more info.

(We don’t have selections for these, they are done by quote right now)

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat released!

admin — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:43:33 +0000

Libre Hosting is pleased to announce the release of support for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat -

http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeerkat/ReleaseNotes

http://www.canonical.com/news/ubuntu-10.10-server

The latest release of Ubuntu – With lots of new features, and updated sever packages, including an up-to-date WordPress 3.01 package! (as of this writing).

It also has updated server-side cloud software that allows up to offer Private Cloud services and provisioning - send us a note at “info at librehosting dot com” for more info.

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat is now the default OS of choice for all our new VMs. Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) is also available, for those who want the longer 2-year upgrade cycle as opposed to the 6-month upgrade cycle of the regular Ubuntu releases.

Django 1.2.3 Now Available

joe — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 17:30:46 +0000

Django 1.2.3 is now available for ordering here at Libre Hosting.

http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2010/sep/10/123/

Simply select “Django 1.2.3″ from the dropdowns when you place your order -

Your VM will be set up to sync to trunk, to allow you to keep up-to-date – easiest way to keep up on point releases and bugfixes.

As always, Satchmo, and any other Django plugins you prefer, are available on request – just put your preferences in the “Notes” field when you place your order.

Rails 3.0 Now Available!

joe — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:15:42 +0000

Ruby on Rails 3.0 has finally been released, after two years of development:

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/8/29/rails-3-0-it-s-done

[UPDATED September 4th]

In addition, a Rails 2.3.9 maintenance release is out as of Sep 4th 2010:

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/9/4/ruby-on-rails-2-3-9-released

Just select from the dropdowns when you place your order -

Rails will be installed with Passenger, and whatever other config you desire, just put it in the “Notes” field when you place your order.

Rails 3.0 Beta 4, 2.3.8 now available

joe — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:53:45 +0000

Rails 2.3.8 has been out since May, and 3.0 Beta 4 is now available:

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/6/8/rails-3-0-beta-4-now-rc-in-days

Just select from the dropdowns when you place your order:

The 2.3.x series to get 2.3.8
The 3.0 Beta / RC to get the latest & greatest beta or Release Candidate.

Rails will be installed with Passenger, and whatever other config you desire, just put it in the “Notes” field when you place your order.