We’ve partnered with Joyent to help you through the upcoming changes [1] they are making to their cloud business. At this time, we do not have all of the details ironed out, but are working to provide a great home for your infrastructure needs. Over the next weeks, we will be detailing some changes to […]| SSD Cloud Hosting & VPS ▶ MNX.io
One of the important aspects of hosting a server (besides backups!) is monitoring. Knowing when your server is offline and needing manual intervention to bring it back online is key to running a server. Without having the proper monitoring and notifications in place can cause site outages which can costs businesses their money and customers. […]| SSD Cloud Hosting & VPS ▶ MNX.io
Today a security vulnerability (CVE-2015-3456) known as VENOM was publicly announced. This bug is described in detail here and here. At MNX.io, we run SmartOS. Our architecture runs QEMU inside of an additional secure container. This means that if an attacker were to exploit this, they would be confined inside their existing secure container and would NOT affect […]| SSD Cloud Hosting & VPS ▶ MNX.io
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Here at MNX, we’ve been busy setting up a brand new data center for our cloud hosted services. We started off as a consulting company providing managed Linux services, which means we have been exposed to a ton of different customer environments and an equal number of schemes for naming equipment…not all of them good. It’s a problem that goes back as far as computers have existed, and everyone has their own opinion on the “best” way to name hosts. Most methods start out fine at the b...| mnx.io