Maui Systems Weblog

New Web Servers...

Marty — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:41:06 +0000

Our two new internet servers are finally coming online; providing web and email services to the company and also those customers who host their email and websites with us. The previous servers had uptimes in excess of 1700 days (well over 4 years), but were starting to hurt under increased web processing (blogs, databases, java etc). In the next couple of weeks, they should be live....

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Working with SPF

Marty — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:17:51 +0000

We've run our own mail servers for a number of years and during that period, the battle against SPAM email hasn't really stopped. Amonst the plethora of defences already implemented, we have been watching the progress of 'SPF' has been making. With the number of domains now using SPF increasing, what follows is a description of how we have implemeneted it on Solaris with Postfix.

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Small, low cost but highly available switches.

Marty — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:04:57 +0000

As we are in the process of revising our co-location servers for 2010, one of the challenges that has come up is how to provide a 'communications' component that delivers:

Small form factor (must fit in a 1u chassis)
Minimum of 9 100Tx ethernet ports
VLAN tagging (802.1q) available on at least 4 ports
Remote access through IPSEC
Either dual PSU or two physical units
Low cost!

Original post blogged on blog.maui.co.uk.