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

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 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.

j

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.

For hosting – select it from the dropdowns.

[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)

j

Development Version

We are proud to announce that we now support and can install the latest trunk-version (0.9) of Satchmo, installed from Mercurial (aka “hg” – get it?!).

Since it’s installed directly from the VCS, and symlinked into the python path, this allows for updates to the source tree anytime – in other words, instant upgrades (and downgrade, if a problem is encountered!) anytime (depending on your VCS).

Django, and other plugins, are installed this same way, as always – we have done it this way since 2007.

Here is a quick intro on how it’s done – just indicate you want us to install Satchmo in the “notes” field when you place your order, and we’ll get it done for you.

j

All our WordPress instances have been upgraded to the latest, current, secure version, 2.8.4. In addition, all new WordPress instances purchased and deployed from now on will be 2.8.4 or greater.

Here is the announcement from Matt:

WordPress 2.8.4: Security Release

We did this immediately upon leaning of the security vulnerability.

To our knowledge, none of our existing customers have been affected.

If you have not yet  logged in to your Admin interface since the upgrade, you may get a “Database upgrade” button, just press it and it should complete successfully in a few seconds.

Let us know if you have any questions or issues.

j

Uptime Collection

This post serves as a collection of our notable uptimes – for several things:

• Physical servers
• VMs / Virtual Servers
• Application platforms that keep uptimes, such as Zope

We will also be posting notable uptimes as comments to the post so that you can get an idea of how we do things.

Good Example [Updated! March 18, 2010]

Here’s one of our primary webservers, running Debian, installed in 2005 prior to our adopting Virtualization across the board in our product line:

webserver:~# uptime
16:26:01 up 1534 days, 10 min,  7 users,  load average: 0.16, 0.32, 1.04
webserver:~# date
Thu Mar 18 16:26:11 PDT 2010
webserver:~#

Yes, that’s right – 4.2+ years.

One of our Physical VM hosts

Here’s our current uptime, just prior to our kernel upgrade which will force a reboot:

root@librehost-h64:~/libre# uptime
17:27:36 up 96 days, 18:36,  4 users,  load average: 0.16, 0.26, 0.27
root@librehost-h64:~/libre#

After this upgrade we’ll be on production/release post-SSH-key Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 LTS.

j