This notification is to inform you that we are conducting a planned maintenance exercise to your servers’ co location network during the following interval.

Date : 21/03/2010 Sunday

Time : 02:00 – 06:00 SGT (GMT+8:00)

Reason : Planned Network Maintenance Exercise

Impact : Intermittent connection outage during maintenance window

Action : No action needed

One of our new systems locked itself out due to APF configuration error. For this basically can remove the APF and allow remote access again :

/etc/init.d/iptables stop
rm -Rfv /etc/apf
rm -fv /etc/cron.daily/fw
chkconfig apf off
rm -fv /etc/init.d/apf

That should solve it.

To Our Valued Customer:

Greetings!

Please be informed that we will be performing an Emergency UPS Maintenance Activity on 06-March-2010 Saturday 6:00AM – 8:00 GMT+8 wherein we will conduct a replacement of a faulty component in one of the UPSes (UPS-1).

There should be no power interruption is expected. However, please be aware that unexpected interruption could still occur throughout the given time frame.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause you.

8 to Infinity is pleased to offer

Fujitsu
RX 100S5I
1 U Server
Intel Xeon X3220 4C 2.4 Ghz 2 x 4 MB
2 GB DDR2-800
DVD-RW
HD SATA 500 GB x 2 Raid 1
Windows 2008 R2 with 5 Cal
Server with OS will be Customer Owned
S$5200
This includes 1 year colocation with 2 IP addresses and 200 GB/mth traffic!

Singapore Offer from http://www.8.to

We have customers who are looking at 1 TB drives for their dedicated servers. Some even want as big as possible. One important thing which we normally ask customers to think is whether do they need even such big hard disks or not. Sure a lot of times, the bigger the better.

Not really so for servers. If you are using even near 1TB especially with lots of small files, you will find that the main bottle neck for your servers are from the Input/Output. Another thing to consider, rebuilding the hard disks if anything happen to it will take ages due to the size.

It is getting more and more difficult to find smaller hard disks on the market. In this case, opt for SCSI or SaS or even SSD. Such hard disks are built to better withstand the I/O requirements of servers. Remember Big doesn’t always equate to Better.

To all 8 to Infinity Customers and Friends, 祝您，一帆风顺二龙腾飞三羊开泰四季平安五福临门六六大顺七星高照八方来财九九同心十全十美百事亨通千事吉祥万事如意！祝新年吉祥如意

For the next two weeks, dedicated servers orders may be slightly delayed due to the closure of the major vendors for the Chinese New Year holidays and the fact the the major suppliers in China are also having a long holiday. We will strive our best to rush the orders though. Thanks for your understanding and Have a Great Lunar New Year!

For Chinese New Year, for at least two weeks, it will be quiet everywhere. Economic activities normally resume after that. Everyone seems to be out. The foreign workers will go back home, Singaporeans will be on overseas holidays and everywhere will be quiet.

For us, the technicians will suffer. Reason being, it is at Chinese New Year extended holidays where it is best to maintain our network equipment and so on. Therefore definitely no break for them all! Instead extremely busy. But we do prepare the parts in advance as the distributors and shops will be closed. A lot of parts come from China, that’s why even if they open they will have problems securing the parts until China side finishes their holidays.

This notification is to inform you that we are conducting a planned maintenance exercise to our core network during the following interval.

Date : 21 February 2010 Sunday

Time : 02:00 – 06:00 SGT (GMT+8:00)

Reason : Planned Network Maintenance Exercise

Impact : Intermittent connection outage during maintenance window

Action : No action needed

We have seen a lot of companies only paying cursory attention to their company web site which is a great pity. Even if you are a pure Brick and Mortar company, your web site can help by being your Sales Person on the Internet 24/7/365. It is a pity if you are not utilizing your business web site to perform this in the very least.

Of course, you don’t just get a designer to design your web site and leave it there. Promote it on your namecards etc. Try to be more interactive. Maybe add a blog to describe your company’s activities or new products, this will certainly bring to live a web site rather than just some business web site that was not updated for years and years.

Some things at least, put in your business product or services introduction, your contacts should the customers be interested. A good web site works hand in hand with your regular sales team to grow your business. Don’t waste it.