Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Below are some recent news stories about Open Source software.
Click each headline for the full story.
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Our new website is now online.
As you would expect, the site is created wholly using Open Source software. It has been created using the excellent WordPress software and is
hosted on our own LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) servers.
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
We can provide remote or onsite support for Open Source operating systems (Linux / BSD) and applications such as the Apache webserver, Tomcat, MySQL. There are more examples of products we’ve worked on our experience page.
We’re comfortable working in mixed environments too, for example running Apache, MySQL and PHP on Windows (commonly known as the WAMP application stack)
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
We provide the following services:
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
We offer website and email hosting using a 100% Open Source platform.
Visit the Red Cube Hosting website to find our more about our Open Source hosting packages.
We can also help you setup your own secure, reliable servers to host your website, email or application - contact us for more information.
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
We have been working with Free and Open Source Software since 1998 and have worked with wide variety of customers, ranging in size from single employees through to large multinationals. An increasing amount of our work is with SME’s who are making use of Open Source software to reduce their IT costs. Our customers are in both the private and public sectors.
Free and Open Source software we work with
Our preferred Linux distributions are Debian, Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but we have considerable experience with a wide range of Linux distributions. We are also experienced with BSD, in particular OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
We build mail servers based around either Exim, Postfix or Sendmail MTA’s and generally use Courier IMAP/POP3 server. We also utilise a number of open source anti-spam packages including SpamAssassin and amavis.
A lot of our work is building and supporting the infrastructure for web facing applications and websites. Generally this involves Apache HTTPd as the web server, with either a TomCat application server or PHP application. Generally these make use of a database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL. The most common configuration we work with now is known as the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). We’ve also made use of squid as a web content accelerator, and a caching proxy server.
We have setup and provided support for numerous Open Source web applications such as MediaWiki, Drupal, Blojsum and Wordpress (which we use to run this site).
We use Samba to allow customers to run Windows compatible file/print server without needing to run Windows.
We also work with a number of monitoring packages, and make extensive use of packages such as monit and smokeping as well as our own custom monitoring scripts to monitor our customers systems and networks.
These are just examples of our work, so if you have another Open Source system you’d like us to support then please contact us.
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
We make use of a number of open source monitoring packages and our own custom monitoring scripts to monitor servers we manage. Most common problems, such as a service failing, can be fixed automatically by these scripts - otherwise an alert can be sent by email or SMS.
Using Cacti to graph processor usage.Monitoring information such as available disk space, memory and CPU usage can also be used to aid in capacity planning.
We can also monitor your internet facing systems remotely using our geographically disbursed network of monitoring servers. Common uses are to monitor the availability of clients network connections, email servers, websites and web-facing applications and notify the relevant technicians. We are also able to carry out more in-depth checks - such as notifying you of your website’s homepage changes unexpectedly.
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Open Sourcery is an information technology consultancy specialising in providing support for Free and Open Source Software (”FOSS”). We specify, build and maintain secure, reliable intranet and internet facing systems built from Open Source software.
You can explore our site using the tabs at the top, or the links on the right hand side of the page. Alternatively, here are some good starting points:
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Open Sourcery is part of Red Cube Systems Limited, an IT consultancy established in 2001. The Open Soucery name was setup in order to reflect the fact that the majority of our work now consists of consultancy and support for systems built around Open Source software.
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