October 18, 2012 · News, Server · (No comments)

Ubuntu 12.10 ships the latest Openstack release, codenamed Folsom, improvements to MAAS and the latest Argonaut LTS release of Ceph, a highly scalable distributed object storage solution.

These technologies further position Ubuntu Server as the best OS for scale-out computing. Quality also had a strong focus with continuous integration, deployment and testing of upstream OpenStack commits and automated testing of all cloud images on Amazon EC2 from 12.04 forward.

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September 21, 2012 · Server · 2 comments

PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software. PostgreSQL is developed by the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, consisting of a handful of volunteers employed and supervised by companies such as Red Hat and EnterpriseDB.It implements the majority of the SQL:2008 standard,is ACID-compliant, is fully transactional (including all DDL statements), has extensible data types, operators, index methods, functions, aggregates, procedural languages, and has a large number of extensions written by third parties.
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September 14, 2012 · Server · 1 comment

A DHCP Server assigns IP addresses to client computers. This is very often used in enterprise networks to reduce configuration efforts. All IP addresses of all computers are stored in a database that resides on a server machine.

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August 15, 2012 · Server · 1 comment

MongoDB (from "humongous") is an open source document-oriented NoSQL database system.MongoDB is part of the NoSQL family of database systems. Instead of storing data in tables as is done in a "classical" relational database, MongoDB stores structured data as JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas (MongoDB calls the format BSON), making the integration of data in certain types of applications easier and faster.
MongoDB is a document database used commonly in modern web applications.
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July 17, 2012 · Server · (No comments)

Introduction

This tutorial will explain how to purchase a VPS hosting package at A2 Hosting , setting up a fresh Ubuntu server installation, and configuring several typical applications such as Apache, MySQL, PHP .

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