Edge Web Hosting to the Rescue!

I am not sure if people know this (and yes, I shall get round to putting up a banner) but the guys at EdgeWebHosting have been hosting my site on a dedicated server that allows me to both maintain this blog as well as a bunch of small projects that I have for quite a while now. I have always got on with Vlad at all the conferences and the choice seemed good. 

So far the service has been stellar, no downtime etc. But normally, that is what you expect right? A true test really comes when things go wrong. 

And on Tuesday apparently they did. 

I woke up to find that I had a missing call from the USA. A bit confusing, but when I heard the voicemail, it was Dave, one of the support engineers at Edge Web Hosting that had spotted suspicious activity on my site. I wont go into all the details here of the exploit (lets say that it looked a lot worse than it ended up being and nothing was actually compromised) , but throughout Tuesday, they were the most on the ball company I have ever hosted with in keeping me up to date. 

(before you ask, it was a mis configuration I did to apache, for a quick job that I should have removed and was exploited. Let's leave it at that)

I can't recommend them enough, and even through emails updating me on the findings of the supposed intrusion including IM'ing for information etc. 

When was the last time YOU had service like that eh?

So all in all big thanks to the guys at Edge Web Hosting! 

 

3 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 5:50 PM - Categories: hosting | cfml

Aptana moves into the shared hosting field

Aptana, the people behind the Aptana IDE and Jaxer, have announced Aptana Cloud which describes itself as:

... a scalable Elastic Application Cloud™ featuring the most popular and widely adopted Web infrastructure, ready to use and ready to scale as you need it. Aptana Cloud also plugs right into your IDE to provide instant deployment, smart synchronization, and seamless migration as you scale. Aptana Cloud is ideal for developers who use scripting languages to create Ajax, Facebook, mySpace and all other sorts of Web applications.

Its nice to see a variety of players in this market apart from the usual gorillas of Google and Amazon. It would be interesting to see CFML applications deployed easily in this manner in my opinion. I also wonder if companies like Microsoft and Yahoo would get involved in this? They already have the infrastructure, of course, not sure how Windows servers would handle this! Aptana Cloud is currently in beta and there is a early access request form if you would like to get involved!

4 comments - Posted by Mark Drew at 11:07 AM - Categories: aptana | hosting