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My Cluster on eBay

Its kinda sad to see it happen, but it is a huge incentive to make it better when we get to Australia.
My 4 IBM Netfinity 5000 servers (shown bottom of pic) cost me £750 from eBay a few years ago - I payed extra to have their memory and processors upgraded so each server had [...]

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Created by: Martin Guppy
Created on: Thursday, April 5th, 2007 - 1:27 pm
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
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New nodes for The IND-Network Cluster

Over the last couple of weeks I have been busying myself preparing 2 servers, one to take to Australia when Gurgi-Girl and myself emigrate and one to *hopefully* leave behind in the UK temporarily to take care of existing services and reduce downtime.
I set a few standards and goals that the servers needed to [...]

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Created by: Martin Guppy
Created on: Friday, March 30th, 2007 - 9:15 pm
Last Modified: Saturday, December 29th, 2007
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Happy 4th Birthday IND-Web.com

Well, I almost missed it… …and I definitely didn’t realise it had been 4 years since I started hosting services on The IND-Network Cluster!
It has been a very educational experience providing services for the general public and its something I plan to continue to do - even though my partner Gurgi-Girl and myself are [...]

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Created by: Martin Guppy
Created on: Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 - 10:38 pm
Last Modified: Saturday, December 29th, 2007
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Testing Xen on the Cluster

While running The IND-Network Cluster, I try to test out different open source solutions to achieve a particular task and often, the experimentation spawns new projects.
In the past, I have been asked if I could host a cluster node on my network so that a user can have their own remote server.
It sounded quite a [...]

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Created by: Martin Guppy
Created on: Monday, February 26th, 2007 - 2:17 pm
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
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My website service provider

I administer and own IND-Web.com and The IND-Network Cluster, it is my ongoing project to promote the use of open source clustering technologies and make them available to the public.
Currently, IND-Web.com offers 2 hosting packages and accepts donations.
I have been working on IND-Web.com and The IND-Network cluster since 2003 and find it would be something [...]

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Created by: Martin Guppy
Created on: Saturday, January 20th, 2007 - 11:00 pm
Last Modified: Saturday, December 29th, 2007
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