Yearly archives: 2009
LINX (London Internet Exchange) Failure
The London Internet Exchange (LINX) suffered a major failure on Wednesday afternoon, leading to a significant slowdown of UK traffic. LINX acts as a main peering point for UK ISPs, allowing them to exchange traffic directly, which is cheaper than …
Handy DNS checking tool
One of our customers has setup a handy DNS checking tool, which doesn’t require a subscription payment. It’s handy for diagnosing DNS issues, including Parent servers, SOA and NS records, and also MX and WWW. You can find the tool …
On the Importance of a Clean and Tidy Data Centre
We see data centres as pretty sterile places, with flashy lights and expensive IT equipment. It’s therefore quite important that the place is kept tidy and clean. Yesterday we had our Reynolds House data centre facility professionally cleaned by CRM …
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New job post: Support Technician
We’re looking for a new support technician to join our growing technical support and server management team in Manchester. The position is based from our Hulme, Manchester office and datacentres. Please note: Melbourne is not accepting submissions from recruitment companies …
Free memory while current stocks last
Our “Dual Core Xeon L3110, 3.00GHz, 6MB Cache System” comes with 1.0GB extra free while current stocks last. You will need to contact our sales team to place an order as its not available directly on our online order form.
Networking with Melbourne
Networking with Melbourne – a chance to tour our new Turing House data centre One of my key tasks is making the business public aware of servers and their importance to enterprise. On Thursday Melbourne had a fantastic opportunity to …
SSL/TLS vulnerability discovered
A serious vulnerability has been identified in the current SSL (Version 3) and TLS (Version 1) whereby an attacker is able to issue commands to the server that appear to be coming from a legitimate source, by exploiting a flaw …
Sales-lead solutions
Leading on from Daniels post regarding honesty. As technical architect for Melbourne I’m a massive fan of the datacentre tours we offer both our existing and prospective clients. I think it’s a great opportunity to create close-knit relationships allowing us …
A brief word on honesty
It seems to be de rigeur in the hosting industry to upsell one’s infrastrucutre, in the process potentially making slightly misleading claims about datacentre and/or network ownership. Hopefully you wouldn’t expect this kind of behaviour from Melbourne, and rightly so. …
Dedicated or Virtual?
Now virtualisation has reached maturity, virtual servers are a real alternative to dedicated servers. However, they’re not ideal for all situations. From our point-of-view we’re seeing virtual servers as a great alternative to our entry-level dedicated servers, and a great …