CloudHarmony.com has released the results of their latest cloud performance tests. In a blog post last week, Voxel’s VoxCLOUD compute platform ranked as the fastest for U.S.-based cloud providers. Check out the full article to see how Voxel ranks: http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2010/02/cloud-speed-test-results.html Read the rest of this entry >> Posted in General Posts | No Comments »  Industry Covers Public Cloud / Private Cloud Trends with VoxelJanuary 28th, 2010 posted by Zachary Smith Here at Voxel, we continue to push forward our vision of Cloud Computing (API-based, incrementally billed infrastructure) with our VoxCLOUD and VoxSERVER product lines. Recently, we’ve spent some time outlining where we think the industry is going in 2010 and how IaaS providers like Voxel fit in. Two recent press mentions include:
As always, if you’re a client of Voxel’s using our cloud products or have questions, feedback or comments, please feel free to reach out to us with your thoughts and opinions. Read the rest of this entry >> Posted in General Posts, Press | No Comments » Web Hosting Industry Review (“the Whir”) has picked up on our latest announcement on our hybrid-cloud infrastructure service: VoxSTRUCTURE. Over here at Voxel, we’re super excited about melding the benefits of cloud computing into our total infrastructure product line. Please have a look at our product page for a quick overview (http://voxel.net/products-services/) and read through the WHIR full article here. We’ll be posting more as we get feedback from our clients and partners on how VoxSTRUCTURE is being used to deploy hybrid infrastructure. Read the rest of this entry >> Posted in General Posts | 1 Comment »  Load Balancing and Scripted Deployment with VoxCLOUD ServersSeptember 25th, 2009 posted by Nathan Goulding Since scaling and hybrid infrastructure are hot topics around here, I thought I’d give you a snapshot of what’s possible when combining VoxCLOUD, hAPI, and post-install scripts; namely, grabbing the latest release of your application from an SVN repository and automatically adding your new server into a load-balanced pool to serve web traffic — in under 4 minutes. Read the rest of this entry >> Posted in General Posts | 1 Comment » A couple of weeks ago, the fine folks at Amazon made an interesting beta product announcement that’s getting a fair bit of buzz: The Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). As usual, Amazons CTO Wernes Vogel wrote a rather informative post describing the new product on his blog. There’s also some good details on their product page. Read the rest of this entry >> Posted in General Posts | No Comments » Ryan Lawler over at Contentinople.com has posted an article about Voxel’s new VoxCLOUD Beta Launch — our coming out party of sorts for our cloud computing service. Read the full article here: http://www.contentinople.com/author.asp?section_id=450&doc_id=180528 Read the rest of this entry >> Posted in Press | No Comments » We’re proud to announce some new clients and partners in Asia, where Voxel has recently opened its first datacenter and network POP in Singapore. We’ve added Shinetech Software (www.shinetechchina.com), a software outsourcing company based in Beijing, and CANDIS Group (www.candisgroup.com), a full service IT provider that brings ‘gateway to China’ services to global Fortune 5000 companies. Both clients took an interest in leveraging Voxel’s Asian hosting options (our virtual and dedicated solutions are available already out of Singapore) as well as our European and US hosting and content delivery options. Read the full release here. ![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=1742c1f2-c862-45ea-a30f-12845d4b7c41) Read the rest of this entry >> Posted in Press | No Comments »
Almost a year ago, I blogged about virtualizing the voxel datacenter. In the post, I was a bit contemptuous on the hype surrounding “cloud computing”, but nonetheless alluded to how Voxel was going to get on the cloud bandwagon with our own service: “SilverLining”. Other than the cloudophony getting louder with each passing month, what’s happened since then? Last quarter, Voxel launched the SilverLining Technology Preview (SLTP). We’ve had current clients and other interested alpha-testers kick the tires of our cloud service and instantiate thousands of virtualized servers via API’s and our desktop Adobe AIR control panel. Most importantly, we’re continuing to get substantive feedback and real-world suggestions that are helping shape and polish the product prior to its public beta launch. Read the rest of this entry >> Posted in General Posts | 1 Comment » Several Voxel-lites have ventured down to Florida to present at Gartner’s 2009 IT Infrastructure Summit. The event is pretty intense, filled with seminars and speaking events by Gartner’s top ranked analysts in cloud computing, content delivery and outsourced IT management. As a Gartner 2009 “Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing”, Voxel is super excited to be in attendance. If you happen to be at the event, come by and see our booth. We’re giving out free footballs (see gratuitous camera phone shot attached!).
Read the rest of this entry >> Posted in General Posts | No Comments » Scaling the LAMP Stack – Confessions of a PHP Dev Turned Sales GuyMay 29th, 2009 posted by Nathan Goulding (Obligatory preface: For the better part of the last 4 years I’ve spent my days (and nights) installing, configuring, and tweaking servers that power one of the more trafficked political sites on the web. It all started with one Windows box and ended with eight LAMP servers, load balancing, firewalls, database replication, and enough Ethernet cables to circle the earth a few times over. The result: 150 page views per second and 300 Mbps, without breaking too much of a sweat.) “Our website is getting hit with too much traffic. What do we do now?” CEOs, managers, and tech dudes have all asked this question a thousand times. Being in the business of server hosting, we’re asked this question every day. So, we thought it might be helpful to take you through the lifecycle of scaling a website – from shared hosting, to dedicated hosting, to managed hosting. It’s easy to argue that shared hosting is the simplest way to get a website up and running. Pricing usually starts under $10, and the setup is fairly straightforward and automated. When a few weeks or months go by with no problems, you become confident that the masters of the Internet have finally made it so that website hosting “just works.” But then you publish a video of your pet poodle wearing tights and dancing to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and your website becomes an internet sensation. Then it crashes, and words like “DoS” and “hack” start getting thrown around. You break out into a cold sweat and find yourself running around like a squirrel in traffic. Read the rest of this entry >> Posted in General Posts | 1 Comment » SubscribeWant to stay "in the Know"?  subscribe to our main RSS feed
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