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Submission + - Interview with Jeremy Howard of FastMail.FM (emailserviceguide.com)

Submitted by Siker on Saturday October 03, 2009 @05:06PM

Siker writes: In a world of giants such as Gmail and Rackspace, email service provider FastMail.FM is somehow doing great with signups above the million mark. Email Service Guide interviews Jeremy Howard, founder of FastMail.FM, to find out how. Also covered is the company's contributions to Open Source software such as Cyrus-IMAP and Thunderbird. Jeremy discusses the future of IMAP, how open protocols help FastMail.FM and why he thinks SLAs from email providers are a con.

Submission + - When VMware fails, go to jail (playingwithwire.com)

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Siker

on Monday June 01, 2009 @08:08PM

Siker writes: "Email transfer service YippieMove ditches VMware, switches to FreeBSD jails: 'We doubled the amount of memory per server, we quadrupled SQLite's internal buffers, we turned off SQLite auto-vacuuming, we turned off synchronization, we added more database indexes. We were confused. Certainly we had expected a performance difference between running our software in a VM compared to running on the metal, but that it could be as much as 10X was a wake-up call.'"

Submission + - Gentoo Not Good for Servers?

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Siker

on Sunday January 28, 2007 @04:22PM

Siker writes: "I firmly believe in updating server software only when you need to. If you don't need new features, and things are working, why change anything? If you update anything you will doubtlessly need to update configuration files. You will need to fix things that break in the upgrade process. [...] This is hard with Gentoo. Gentoo wants you to change a lot of stuff. It wants to be bleeding edge.

My blog post caused a bit of a stir with lots of passionate comments and even its own thread on the Gentoo forums."

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