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M6.Net Weekly News July 27 2005 |
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My head is deep in rebuilding the 3 year cash flow and building models
into it to project growth and server requirements so we can
provision before we need them but not have idle inventory. As well I
have also been fine tuning Network Ops project plans. Mainly I am
fine tuning the project to roll out new backup and monitoring
systems. We just installed a new monitoring system but I am very
keen to overlay it with another one - I just cant get enough data on
the metrics of our servers. Coming back to the cash plan, all this
monitoring data and metrics helps fine tune the cash plan model as
time progresses and we can fine tune the strategy and respond to
changes much faster. For us monitoring is more than just up or down,
it tells us where to go and what directions to turn. Excel is the
key tool I am using and it is mega powerful and a real mind bender
at times. I have found the Forums at
http://www.ozgrid.com to be indispensable it getting it all
together. If you ever get stuck with Excel head on over to OZgrid -
the forums are an encyclopedia of Excel wisdom.
Spending money to make money. Rather than shout and scream with another bang, whoopy, flashy ad in a web hosting directory (mainly because we spend our money on research and development and our operations) we take a different approach to marketing. We have people who help others on the net - answering questions in forums, writing articles and posting them. This markets us in two ways 1) people reading the article get a better idea of us and click on over 2) it helps increase our page rank in Google helping to keep our search engine rankings healthy. Over the years we have built up a list of 100+ top quality article repositories that other sites use to grab articles to republish. In the last 18 months our 115 Articles have been placed in over 60,000 spots around the internet. Have you ever written an email to a friend or relative explaining how to do something with their computer or on the web? Or maybe you have written an long view point on some technology or direction of the internet. With a quick bit of editing this is an article. If you wanted have something like this or even an article - email it to jesses@m6.net who is a professional writer who comes in each week to edit and write articles, who will see if it is ok to send and edit it. If it is ok to send we will give it to Daniel who will then submit it to the article repositories on our list. |
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Mail servers are funny old things. Late last week our main mail server fell over due to a power supply failure which saw a lot of mail domains go offline for a few hours. We then got a backup server online and accepting mail until the original server could be brought back online, so if your mailbox looks like it’s missing some emails, contact support for the address of a web interface you can access to check for any important emails received during the outage. Apart from the mail server issue, it’s been a good week overall. I’ve cleaned a few mail servers of deleted accounts and am pressing on with the IIS cleanups on older servers. We’ve also narrowed down a bandwidth/resources issue and resolved it on one of the newer servers which was causing sites on that server to respond a little slow. |
 Josh McDougall Support Coordinator |
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Hi everyone. The last
week was a good learning experience for me by
allowing me to experience my first hardware failure
at m6.net. Gavan worked the problem pretty well
considering there was a hardware shortage at the
Datacenter. We had mail services up in 2 hours with
a backup up mail server and the original mail server
was up and running within 12 hours. It was good to
see the team step up a gear to the increased influx
of queries regarding the mail server.
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 Michael Nordling Chief Software Engineer |
Development and New Technology | |
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Hi Everyone, Ananth has started to
profile the code to try and optimize it as much as possible to make
the control panel experience as fast as possible. Daniel is working
on the help system, manual etc and also adding quick help. Javier is
finalizing some of the reseller functionality and some added
functionality for virtual folders.
Everything is on track for a full beta roll out next month and as always, if you have any comment or wishes, you can contact the dev team at bugs@copanel.com |
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