Ruben’s Tech Corner
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A primer on our performance tiers and allocation
/in Ruben's Tech Corner/by Ruben SchadeAnyone who has dealt with hypervisors at scale know all too well the challenges that come with effective resource allocation. How do you make the most efficient use of memory and CPU? How do you not burn one or the other when you’ve allocated all that’s available? This post explores how OrionVM tackles these issues, […]
FreeBSD 13.2 and 14.0 template updates
/in Ruben's Tech Corner/by Ruben SchadeA bit of a shorter one this week, but we’ve rolled out the FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE template across our regions for those interested. Ping your account manager if its not available in your list of templates.
Disk encryption on OrionVM virtual servers
/in Ruben's Tech Corner/by Ruben SchadeDisk encryption is a method of protecting stored data from unauthorised access. This post explores a few different approaches for implementing it on OrionVM virtual infrastructure, and how it may fit into an overall cloud security strategy.
Reading OrionVM and other news with RSS
/in Ruben's Tech Corner/by Ruben SchadeHave you ever wanted to keep track of all your news sites, blogs, events, errata notices, and announcements, all from the one place? Really Simple Syndication lets you do that, and you can even self-host an RSS reader on OrionVM.
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/in Ruben's Tech Corner/by Ruben SchadeWelcome to the inaugural post on Ruben’s Tech Corner, an unoriginal name for hopefully some original ideas. You can see now why I’m not in charge of marketing.