VPS pricing: 123-reg taxes linux users
In my inbox today dropped an email from 123-rg.co.uk, who we buy DNS services from, announcing their new VPS services. Following the link the services looked very good, 1Gb RAM and unmetered bandwidth from £9.99pm. Things started to go downhill at the OS selection stage – only Centos or Ubuntu were offered as alternatives to Windows and things got even stranger with pricing – a like for like VPS with Linux was 50% more expensive than one with Windows. Very strange given the zero license costs of the Linux platform, so can only be described as a tax. Great news for Windows...
read moreWebsite planned downtime 1400 today
We have just been made aware from our hosting partner the server our webservers are hosted on requires urgent maintenance scheduled at 1400 today. We estimate our sites will be unavailable for 1 hour.
read moreCitrix partnership to end July 2011
Following Citrix’s restructuring of its partner programme this summer, we have taken the decision not to proceed under the revised membership terms and apply for Silver Partner status. Silver Partner status would see the introduction of revenue targets for reselling Citrix products and we do not feel this appropriate for a non-core area of our business. Under the terms of the existing agreement, our status as an Authorised Citrix Solution Advisor will cease on July 31st , 2011 We remain committed to our customer’s needs and will continue to advise on virtualisation...
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