Welcome to the new CatN!

By Joe Gardiner Thursday, 14th April 2011

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Welcome to the new look CatN hosting! With the launch of the new site CatN enters a very exciting period of development with the addition of new products and the hardening of current ones.

I will continue to post on the progress of vCluster development, but in the mean time let's take a look at the the new site.

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vCluster Billing System

By Joe Gardiner Thursday, 24th June 2010

vCluster-updates After many weeks of development I am happy to announce the release of the CatN Control Panel 1.1, a complete billing system, and the finalised pricing page. You can view our vCluster packages and allowances, usage prices, and support packages at catn.com/vcluster/pricing/. If you're yet to add a payment method please remember you have until the 15th July, and if you're deciding to leave us, a big thank you for all the feedback you gave over the development process. Let's take a quick look at the new releases... read more...

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What is clustered hosting?

By Joe Gardiner Tuesday, 11th May 2010

Clustered hosting is the newest way of hosting your website. A cluster is a group of computers or servers, whose combined computational power provides a service.

Clustered hosting involves spreading the website across multiple servers, like layers. In the CatN stack each layer does its own individual task, so one for web, one for databases, one for logging etc. This has one considerable advantage, if one server goes down the others won't.

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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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