Posts by Alex Howells

Dell chief stuffs data center into suitcase

Switch

Loving the fact even the man from Dell doesn't use their switches, and dropped a Netgear into his new briefcase datacentre!

Man threatens lawsuit after negative eBay feedback

Quote from "I start too many lawsuits" man -

"ebay gives itself a bad name. forcing sellers to obtain court orders to remove feedback is riduculous. all publicity is good publicity, i'm now the worlds best known ebayer who are you? i'm in top ten in google, saving me £150 a week!! watch me make a million out of this."

All I can say is LOL! :)

Intel UMPC chip enters service as server CPU

@ under development

It's made it onto the order form, but our website is usually slow to catch on -- shall get that updated tomorrow. We're happy to answer questions via the "usual" support address in the meantime if anyone needs to know something!

support [at] support /dot/ bytemark (dot) co (dot) uk

The system does have 2 x 2.5" drives fitted, contrary to a comment above, and power consumption is 40-45W with everything accounted including the HDDs. Obviously not a patch on something like an AMD Geode or something ARM-derived but being able to install a standard x86/x86_64 distribution is a major boon as you'll get proper support from the likes of Debian and Ubuntu :)

Performance is pretty decent for a low-ceremony web server, comparable with the likes of a Pentium III 1GHz, having 2GB RAM "as standard" means you can look to caching your content to handle hits from El Reg and Slashdot, bundling two drives with RAID-1 as standard helps protect your data.

Our other value-range servers inhabit the same cases as pictured, and a Athlon64 LE-1620 outfitted with 2048MB RAM and 2 x 160GB (3.5") SATA is £70/mo. Pricing is much cheaper on an Intel Atom, because the CPU (LE-1620) alone will draw close to 45W in that system!

Customers who need to tick boxes like 'Redundant PSUs' or 'Hardware RAID' can look to our varied range of more enterprise-friendly servers based upon Supermicro - prices start at £135/mo. We've got you covered right up to a Dual Opteron 2354 with 32GB RAM, storage options also include 15,000rpm SAS on 3ware 9690SA RAID cards -- perfect if you're needing something really beefy.

Cisco hops onto patching treadmill

LInksys

Completely different kettle of fish. It's not covered by this policy.

Google mounts Chewbacca defense in EU privacy debate

@Anigel

As for ISPs having to pay for IP addresses, well actually no they dont. There is an administration fee for each new assignment and there is the time taken to fill out the RIPE form showing justification for why a tiny company needs 10 million IP addresses (mainly to try and make the dwindling pool of IPv4 addresses last) but there is no X pound per IP fee imposed onto ISPs

^^ That's not entirely correct: you must factor in the administration fee for each new assignment, the staff time to ensure IP ranges are administratively accountable in case RIPE wants to check you're actually using it. Expensive!

Additionally you have an annual RIPE membership fee to pay - this amount is based on how 'big' (network wise) an organization you are, some of the factors taken into account when determining size are IPv4 allocations, IPv6 allocations and the number of AS numbers you're using for your network. :)