Explaining the vCluster Timeline
By Jonathon Wednesday, 9th May 2012
The parent company behind CatN, Fubra, has long had aspirations of providing a web hosting service. As the company has grown over the past 12 years it has had to overcome a multitude of hosting related problems and has always thought it was well positioned to help others when they found themselves navigating the same twisty road. Various versions of Fubra’s hosting product reached different levels of maturity; some never making it out of the conceptual stages, some never quite having the development resource to make a polished product. None ever made it to market. In 2010, however, the idea of the CatN vCluster was born. Fubra required a platform which could cope with the traffic levels it’s own sites were generating while being cost effective — they had outgrown traditional hosting offerings and therefore began to develop a new web hosting platform.
The first version of the CatN vCluster was built from an engineering point of view: it was feature rich but hard to maintain, stable but not designed for customers to interact with day-to-day. A team of web developers were brought into the project to develop a control panel which made a large part of the backend engineering code accessible to users and it was this which was launched as the vCluster public beta. This is the system which the majority of CatN vCluster clients currently use. However, while this system proved a large number of the key vCluster technologies, there were still a number of problems with the system which needed to be ironed out. Firstly there was a large amount of duplication in the management layer of the system and, while users didn’t see it, a number of settings were stored in multiple locations requiring each to be updated when any changes were requested. There were also speed issues with the control panel, as well as a number of other technical problems meaning the system required quite frequent maintenance. So in March 2011 a second round of development work started. read more…
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WordCamp UK 2011
By Joe Gardiner Saturday, 16th July 2011
WordCamp UK 2011 kicks off today at Portsmouth University and CatN, as a Gold sponsor, is here. We have set up our stall in the foyer and are keen to introduce attendees to our products.
If you’re attending WordCamp this weekend come and say hello, sign up for our beta test which will give you a free account for the weekend, and let us show you around our range of products.
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Switching passport groups in the Control Panel
By Joe Gardiner Tuesday, 6th July 2010
At CatN all services are related to a group in the Fubra Passport System. This enables us to centralize payments, support, and any other subscriptions under a common account.
When you sign up we create a personal account and give you the option to create a business account as well. When you first login to the CatN Control Panel you will be in the context of your personal account. If your service subscription is associated with you business account then you will need to switch to this account in oder to view your CatN services.
You can switch accounts in the Control Panel using the drop down menu in the top right hand corner, next to the logout link.
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Control your vCluster!
By Joe Gardiner Wednesday, 5th May 2010
vCluster provides clustered hosting, but aims to offer levels of control similar to a dedicated solution. Numerous hosting companies offer managed “cloud” solutions, but they are often over managed, not providing the user with the level of control they require.
During the development process we strived to provide as many control and access options as possible without compromising security or moving too far from managed hosting.
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