Singapore Web Hosting Blog

UPS Maintenance for Eastern Data Center

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:03:18 +0000

Kindly be inform that the maintenance as scheduled has been postpone and will be re-schedule to a later date.

FROM : 20 March 2010 (Sat), 09:00hrs
TO : 20 March 2010 (Sat), 18:00hrs
MAINTENANCE DURATION : 9 Hours
SERVICE IMPACT DURATION : 0

Feel free to contact us should you need any further clarification. Thank you

Microsoft WebSpark Program

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:01:32 +0000

8 to Infinity Pte Ltd is a Microsoft WebSpark Program Partner. Microsoft® WebsiteSpark™ ignites success in the Web business by helping Web Pros to drive new business opportunities through connections with partners and customers around the world. WebsiteSpark also provides Web Pros with Microsoft software and solutions, as well as support and training opportunities. Microsoft provides business development resources for firms that demonstrate proficiency on the Microsoft platform. To be sponsored for the program, just email us at sales AT 8.to.

Maintenance at Western Data Center

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:09:37 +0000

This notification is to inform you that we are conducting a planned maintenance exercise to your servers’ co location network during the following interval.

Date : 21/03/2010 Sunday

Time : 02:00 – 06:00 SGT (GMT+8:00)

Reason : Planned Network Maintenance Exercise

Impact : Intermittent connection outage during maintenance window

Action : No action needed

Deleting APF

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:35:31 +0000

One of our new systems locked itself out due to APF configuration error. For this basically can remove the APF and allow remote access again :

/etc/init.d/iptables stop
rm -Rfv /etc/apf
rm -fv /etc/cron.daily/fw
chkconfig apf off
rm -fv /etc/init.d/apf

That should solve it.

Maintenance of Northern Datacenter

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:39:24 +0000

To Our Valued Customer:

Greetings!

Please be informed that we will be performing an Emergency UPS Maintenance Activity on 06-March-2010 Saturday 6:00AM – 8:00 GMT+8 wherein we will conduct a replacement of a faulty component in one of the UPSes (UPS-1).

There should be no power interruption is expected. However, please be aware that unexpected interruption could still occur throughout the given time frame.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause you.

March Fujitsu Colocation Specials from 8 to Infinity

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:40:51 +0000

8 to Infinity is pleased to offer

Fujitsu
RX 100S5I
1 U Server
Intel Xeon X3220 4C 2.4 Ghz 2 x 4 MB
2 GB DDR2-800
DVD-RW
HD SATA 500 GB x 2 Raid 1
Windows 2008 R2 with 5 Cal
Server with OS will be Customer Owned
S$5200
This includes 1 year colocation with 2 IP addresses and 200 GB/mth traffic!

Singapore Offer from http://www.8.to

1 TB Drives

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:08:36 +0000

We have customers who are looking at 1 TB drives for their dedicated servers. Some even want as big as possible. One important thing which we normally ask customers to think is whether do they need even such big hard disks or not. Sure a lot of times, the bigger the better.

Not really so for servers. If you are using even near 1TB especially with lots of small files, you will find that the main bottle neck for your servers are from the Input/Output. Another thing to consider, rebuilding the hard disks if anything happen to it will take ages due to the size.

It is getting more and more difficult to find smaller hard disks on the market. In this case, opt for SCSI or SaS or even SSD. Such hard disks are built to better withstand the I/O requirements of servers. Remember Big doesn’t always equate to Better.

Chinese New Year Greetings!

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:22:46 +0000

To all 8 to Infinity Customers and Friends, 祝您，一帆风顺二龙腾飞三羊开泰四季平安五福临门六六大顺七星高照八方来财九九同心十全十美百事亨通千事吉祥万事如意！祝新年吉祥如意

Slight Delay to Fulfilment of Dedicated Server Orders

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:39:22 +0000

For the next two weeks, dedicated servers orders may be slightly delayed due to the closure of the major vendors for the Chinese New Year holidays and the fact the the major suppliers in China are also having a long holiday. We will strive our best to rush the orders though. Thanks for your understanding and Have a Great Lunar New Year!

Chinese New Year

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:09:11 +0000

For Chinese New Year, for at least two weeks, it will be quiet everywhere. Economic activities normally resume after that. Everyone seems to be out. The foreign workers will go back home, Singaporeans will be on overseas holidays and everywhere will be quiet.

For us, the technicians will suffer. Reason being, it is at Chinese New Year extended holidays where it is best to maintain our network equipment and so on. Therefore definitely no break for them all! Instead extremely busy. But we do prepare the parts in advance as the distributors and shops will be closed. A lot of parts come from China, that’s why even if they open they will have problems securing the parts until China side finishes their holidays.