So a new blog post, eh? I just don’t know where to begin… a few bits of news, I guess, in no particular order:
FlexiScale is growing faster and faster as times go by, as per usual – with bandwidth consumption and storage being one of the main growth factors. Of course there is also a plethora of new signups and business hopefuls, finally getting a realistic chance at trying out their business ideas without being tied in to expensive contracts… Who will be the next big thing? Let time tell…
Now, what does this mean? That those startups that have been enabled by the platform only a few months ago are now growing exponentially too!
So big hand to our startups for doing quite this well! (and thanks, too 
– we’ve got a music store who are pushing vast quantities of storage for their online music platform and a major worldwide RSS syndicator are syndicating like bats outta hell! We’ve got hosting resellers actually creating a new control panel for their customers to tie in with the FlexiScale API, essentially white-labelling the platform for their customers, with their own value-added services on top… Are we seeing a new breed of hosting models here I wonder?
…all in all, we’ve got some really exciting projects, all enabled by the platform.
What else you ask? Well, we’ve been in discussions with Debian, CentOS and Ubuntu trying to develop better support for the platform and generally giving back to the community. As you may already know, CentOS are already using some free FlexiScale servers for Dev purposes. What you don’t yet know, is that some of the Ubuntu folks – both the Volunteers and Canonical - are starting to look interested. If all goes to plan, what we will have is even better support for one of the fastest growing Linux distros out there. Good for us, for obvious reasons, and good for them – better exposure, better uptake, more validation
… what is that? You want more? Well, we’ve got server cloning, load balancing coming into beta over the coming weeks. We’ve got Firewalling with Firewall Templates coming out of beta in a few weeks. We’re getting bigger shelves and more of them, bigger servers and more of them. We’ve been pushing our customers to experiment and pushing our suppliers to support new ways of looking at hosted services and utility computing. I personally have even been involved in hybrid solutions comprising of both Utility and traditional computing models in an effort to maximise our customers benefits of what is possible out there… More and more I find that imagination, combined with top-class technical staff and a robust infrastructure equal good times indeed!
Jonathan
