During Construction - A hosted Coming Soon Service
Posted by Sam
It's been a busy summer and some of that time is being spent on a new service called During Construction. During Construction is a hosted coming soon page that will replace those horrible GoDaddy ad filled under construction pages with a nice looking under construction page that also allows to have users sign up for a newsletter or more information. 
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New DNS hosting service
Posted by Sam
The blog has been pretty quiet lately, but a lot has been going on behind the scenes. Perhaps the two biggest things are leaving my full-time job and starting a new DNS hosting service called Dead Simple DNS. DNS hosting has been a little stale for some time and I thought I'd take some time to shake things up a little bit. Here are a couple of things that are already included and some that are planned:
- Multiple users
- Auditing and logging
- OpenID support
- Comments
- Simple
- Secure
- Free (1 domain)
- Detailed statistics
- Global Search and Replace
We've got even more things planned so stay tuned!
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OpenSolaris Dedupe for home use
Posted by Sam
I know that dedupe will save a ton of space at work. We have lots of Subversion repos checked out on servers and lots of similar files like swfaddress and jquery that are reused in a lot of our projects. But I've been curious how useful it would be with my personal files. Here's what I've found when I deduped files from my home directory.
- Photos: 5.5GB savings (34GB pre-dedupe/28.5 post-dedupe)
- Music: No savings
- Projects: 1GB savings (2.2GB pre-dedupe/1.22 post-dedupe)
As you can see there are some decent space savings to be had even for home/power users. The savings would be even greater if I had enabled compression as well but I was more curious about dedupe since compression is fairly common these days.
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New version of SAM Released
Posted by Sam
There's a new version of SAM (Snort Alert Monitor) up at SAM's project site. The new release adds Authentication, a country heat map and country coded IP addresses. Check it out at the project site and let me know what features you'd like to see in the SAM forums.
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Dedupe in the real world
Posted by Sam
For those that haven't heard dedupe has made it's way into OpenSolaris 128a. You can download it at Genunix. To test what kind of savings we might expect to see in the real world I fired a VirtualBox with OpenSolaris 128a and turned on dedupe and compression (gzip level 6). Then I rsync'd 10 gigs worth of files from our staging server. The results? Dedupe dropped that 10 gigs to 6 gigs and compression dropped another 2 gigs which left us at 4 gigs. So dedupe gave us a 40% reduction and compression gave us another 20%. Not too shabby, especially when it takes about 10 seconds to enable it. A little bird told me that they are expecting dedupe in the Sun 7xxx series of storage by the end of the year. The Sun boxes are already the winner for best value and with that they jump even further out front!
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