10 minute walkthrough of Atomia Hosting Control Panel
In this video we will walk you through some of the cool features of Atomia Hosting Control Panel. We will show you the Website Hub, Atomia Domain Manager and Atomia VPS Manager.
Provision services from the command line with Atomia
Even though Atomia comes out of the box with control panels to manage your services there might be times when using the command line to control Atomia is a better alternative. For this use case we have created a Command Line Client for use with Automation server (available as open source on Github). The client is written in Python and can be installed on most platforms.
Two great blog posts about DNSSEC
Two great blog posts about DNSSEC was published today, one in Swedish by our client Binero and one in English by our friends over at Pingdom who interviewed our lead developer Jimmy Bergman (@jimmybergman) for the article.
- http://blogg.binero.se/ (Swedish)
- http://royal.pingdom.com/ (English)
Hit the links if you want to know more about DNSSEC and why it is needed.
.SE and DNSSEC (update)
Growth of signed .SE domains (http://www.iss.se/)
Before the holidays we wrote a blog post on how Atomia DNS has helped to sign a significant number of zones. During the holidays our friends over at Binero went full throttle on signing zones and the result is shown in the official graph from .SE above. Last week Atomia DNS automated the signing of more than 100.000 zones.
Atomia DNS helps to sign a significant number of zones
Growth of signed .SE domains (http://www.iss.se/)
Atomia Cloud Hosting Platform has support for DNSSEC out-of-the-box. Atomia DNS software can also be installed separately.
Our Swedish clients have now started to sign zones using the Atomia DNS software and as shown in the graph above it has had quite some impact on the DNSSEC statistics for the Swedish ccTLD.
As stated in our blog post ‘DNSSEC is coming – Are you ready?‘, .SE is one of the leading ccTLDs rolling out DNSSEC. A result of this is that the ISPs in Sweden have DNSSEC capable resolvers and that the signed zoned will be secured for real and not just in theory.
Read the full blog post after the break.
DNSSEC is coming – Are you ready?
The demand for DNSSEC is growing and by 2015 .SE Registry is planning to have the entire zone signed. Is your platform ready to embrace DNSSEC? Atomia is.
In this blog post we will give you a short introduction to DNSSEC, explaing why it is important and how it works in Atomia.
How to create a NFS share on a Windows 2008 R2 server
In this blog post Thorsten Tarrash will explain how to create a NFS share in Windows 2008 R2. This can be very usefull when working with cross platform integration. In this specific case it is used to keep the number of Virtual Machines to a minimum when installing a test environment.
We are hiring a Sales Manager
We are currently hiring a Sales Manager to our head office in Västerås, Sweden. Don’t miss the opportunity to join our team of hosting and cloud automation experts! Visit our job site for more information: https://www.atomia.com/jobs.
CloudCamp Stockholm in retro perspective
Photo: Özgür Bal, www.ozgur.se
I’m back in Västerås again after a whole day of cloud talks in the capital of Sweden.
The concept of CloudCamp, as explained by Mr. Reuven Cohen (Founder & CTO of Enomaly and co-creator of CloudCamp), is to gather interesting people to talk about the cloud over a beer. This might have worked a few years ago, before cloud became the word on everyone’s lips. Today, CloudCamps are organized all around the globe, engaging thousands of people with one common interest. The cloud.
Read more about Sweden’s first CloudCamp after the break.
How to process the PreShutdown event in a managed Windows service
If you liked the post about Hyper-V guests in different time zones, here is one more article that comes from our development work on the new OpenStack and Hyper-v based setup of Atomia Hosting Platform.
Several of our products ship some windows services which we use to do periodic background tasks. For example, Automation Server uses a service to perform long-running automation tasks. During a system shutdown, it is important that the service has enough time to cleanly exit and not be terminated in the middle of some complex operation.
Whereas Windows will not shutdown until all applications in the user’s session are properly closed, this does not hold true for services, which only have 12 seconds to process a Shutdown notification, which might be too short for your service. The good news is that Microsoft introduced the PreShutdown event for services in Vista, which you can use in your service’s code to get 3 extra minutes (or even more) to shutdown your service.
Read more on how to develop your service’s shutdown behavior after the break.
