What is vCluster (version 2 beta)?

By Joe Gardiner Wednesday, 2nd May 2012

The CatN team and I have been working on the vCluster product for quite a while now.

The last time I checked, including vCluster 1.0, it has actually been for 2 years. Never fear though, we are rapidly approaching product launch and are in the final stages of development. As this mile stone draws closer the team and I have decided to put together a series of blog posts explaining the new vCluster version 2 beta, the development process we have gone through to get to this point, and to deliver a tour of the new control panel and product / packaging model.

This is the first post, and as Head of Product, I have written it to address the commercial and product feature elements of vCluster 2.0 from the user’s perspective.

Introducing Alex

By Alex Monday, 16th April 2012

Hello, my name is Alex Bisogiannis and a few months ago I joined the CatN team as a Storage Architect. I thought I would introduce myself on the CatN blog and share my experience and the previous projects I have worked on. I recently moved to England from Greece and soon my wife and three children will be joining me in (currently) sunny Farnham, Surrey!

My expertise lie in the following areas, and as my title would suggest I am a specialist storage architect focusing on building scalable, highly available storage clusters to various requirements depending on the project.

A Fortnight in Fubra

By Jake Wigmore Thursday, 12th April 2012

I have almost completed my two weeks of work experience at Fubra (give or take a few days for the Easter holidays) and overall I’ve really valued the experience and what I have learnt during my time here.

As I am a student of Digital Media Design at Bournemouth University, Fubra is just the sort of company that would coincide perfectly with the skills that I am currently developing at uni. The friendly, accepting community of employees that work here and the environment in which they work make this place an easy transition from the uni world to the full-time employment world.

I was expecting to be working on a web design project when I joined the team at Fubra but instead I was given the task of producing a short promotional, informative video/animation to raise awareness of Cloud Hosting and its benefits over computer hardware servers. I was happy to accept this challenge as I had worked with Adobe Flash CS5 at university, and the idea that we had for the video would also give me an opportunity to develop my skills with Adobe After Effects CS5.

The project is coming along really well and I’m hoping that it will be finished by the end of this week. I’ve really enjoyed working at Fubra and would be happy to come back in the summer to complete my required 4 weeks of work experience.

- Jake Wigmore.

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Introduction from the new CatN guy

By Huw Davies Thursday, 5th April 2012

So this is the end of my first week as Product manager here at CatN and there has been a lot to learn and do! I come from a Hosted Exchange background and while there are plenty of similarities there is also a lot of new stuff to learn here which is great!

I’ve been in one of the DC’s moving a SAN and installing servers, helping me get a better understanding of the hardware side of the business, as well as getting the lowdown on the existing services and services being launched over the next 6 months. I’ve also got to grips with writing wiki articles and learnt the basics of wiki mark-up language.
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Installing WordPress Multi-Site on Apache localhost using Sub-Domains

By Neil Sweeney Friday, 30th March 2012

One of the often missed features of WordPress is the ability to run more than one site off it. It’s thought that WordPress can be a bit bloated at time with the number of database connections it does, but so long as you keep those connections under control with page caching, then WordPress can have many sites running from a single install; this is exactly how WordPress.com (a network of hosted WordPress blogs) works.

There are a number of blogs out there that will explain to you how to install a WordPress Multi-Site on your localhost, but they’ll use the sub-folder method, which is fine but I like working from the root. So I’ll try to explain why I use a multi-site install, how you can use it and will explain how to get it working on your localhost with sub-domains.

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