Author Archives: Rob Greenwood
Why avoid London? Part 2
Earlier this week I blogged about the launch event of IXManchester, a regional Manchester peering network facilitated by the operators of the London Internet Exchange (LINX). The event was held at the BBC’s new headquarters in MediaCityUK and included presentations from …
Why avoid London?
We’ve all been looking at the rather pretty interactive submarine cable map that Telegeography publish. It’s really interesting to see the key points of connectivity worldwide and, in particular, how Europe’s internet connectivity is so London-centric. Click here to launch map …
Melbourne achieves BS 25999 certification!
Following on from our recent success with ISO27001, it’s now the turn of Business Continuity with today’s award of the BS 25999 certification. For the lucky people amongst you who may never have heard of Business Continuity, it is designed to demonstrate …
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FryDOS or DDoS… it’s all in a day’s work
With over 4 million Twitter followers, Stephen Fry has been known to take down websites with a single click of a button – leading to the coining of the term, ‘FryDOS’ – like DDoS or denial-of-service when a large amount …
IPv6 is here! (nearly)
With IPv4 address exhaustion the current hot topic, there’s been a lot of press coverage recently regarding IPv6 and the challenges service providers are facing bringing this next-generation technology into their networks. Whilst a number of big companies have spoken …
Ubuntu back in the cloud
With the release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, the more observant of you may have noticed Ubuntu snuck itself back onto the list of available operating systems for the UltraVM Cloud Platform. Ubuntu 10.04 is the latest generation of the long …
PCI Compliance: SSL
Over the coming weeks, I’ll be covering a number of technical aspects required to achieve PCI compliance. For information on what PCI compliance is and when you’ll require it, see this detailed wikipedia entry. For now, let’s move onto our …
Root nameservers transition to DNSSEC
Today marks one of the biggest changes to the root nameservers, which provides DNS resolution to the internet. The implementation of DNSSEC will dramatically reduce the effectiveness of man-in-the-middle attacks such as the Kaminsky exploit, which caused widespread panic in …
Mirrors on steroids!
Since we launched our public mirror servers back in January, we have seen demand increase on a daily basis. Not only from our own customers, but from people all around the UK – even a few odd people from the …
Melbourne mirrors online
Here at Melbourne, we’re a big supporter of open source initiatives. From operating systems to web servers, our technical team love to get involved with open source projects. To further support the growth of open source operating systems, we are …