One of BitFolk’s servers in the US has had first one and then two dead disks for quite some time. It has a 4 disk software RAID-10, so by pure luck it was still running. Obviously as soon as a disk breaks you really should replace it, preferably with a hot spare. [...]
Earlier tonight I had a strange bug report from a customer. Ever since I’d moved his VPS from one host to another, he’d stopped being able to see how much disk space he had free.
At first I thought it was simply because when I had moved his VPS I had taken the opportunity to [...]
Last year Abbey screwed up and caused me significant problems in my day to day BitFolk business. They were unable to convince me that they would improve in future, so I voted with my wallet and BitFolk sought another bank for business purposes. I had to keep the abbey accounts open though because [...]
Recently BitFolk has been accused of overcharging for disk space.
In general I don’t try to defend BitFolk’s price-point – the unmanaged VPS hosting market is flooded and it is very easy to find stuff hosted out of the US or continental Europe for just a couple of pounds per month. Clearly I am not [...]
Today I made my way up to Sheffield to attend the UK Network Operators’ Forum’s 13th meeting. UKNOF is something I’ve wanted to attend many times in the past as there has always seemed to be a very interesting set of presentations, but I could never convince my employer to let me do so [...]
Google Checkout just announced that they’re going to put their transaction processing fees up to 3.4% + £0.20, from 1.5% + £0.15. This brings them to exactly the same price point as Paypal, and represents around a 250% increase in the cost of processing a transaction.
I don’t really see what the point is in [...]
This is a really long rant about Abbey business banking. If you have no interest in such a thing or are already convinced of the incompetence of Abbey / Santander Group then there is probably no point in reading further.
Bitfolk’s business account is and has always been with Abbey business banking. The initial [...]
As well as sponsoring one of the mirrors, BitFolk has contributed a prize in the most recent episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast, released on Saturday 30th August.
The prize is £200 of service credit with BitFolk, so for example the winner could put it towards a 300M VPS for one year or a 120M for [...]
I’ve not long got back from colo’ing the new server, obstler. Tonight was the only night I could do it before next week, and Graham very kindly offered to give me a lift from home at 6pm, aiming to be there by 8pm.
I left dayjob early and rushed home but unfortunately Graham got held [...]
BitFolk is providing additional mirrors in London and San Francisco for the Ubuntu UK Podcast.
I think my end is sorted out so hopefully the Ubuntu UK side of things will be ready in time for episode 2’s release early next week.
Obviously as it’s only on episode 2 it’s rather new so I’m not exactly expecting [...]
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