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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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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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• Remote system administration – keeping your systems running smoothly without needing to come onsite
• Hosting on an Open Source platform – running your website, email or other applications on a solid, reliable platform.
• Remote and local monitoring – keeping an eye on your business critical systems.

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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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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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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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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:

• Find out about getting support for Open Source software.
• Read our blog for news and technical notes.
• Contact us.

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