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2000GB Server bandwidth – seems a lot yet so little

When I moved Aradius Network to SoftLayer, we received 2000GB bandwidth allocation each server. We don’t use much of our public bandwidth on MySQL server as we connect to it using internal private IP, however I can’t say the same for our web server. Based on last month usage (May), our web server has used [...]

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Doing Off-site server backup – not just another act of paranoid thinking

When we started Aradius Media Network almost three years ago, Reggie, a buddy of mine laughed at me for having two backups of our sites on different places and labeled me a super paranoid geek. Recent fire on The Planet H1 datacenter was a wake up call for him as he was affected by the [...]

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SlashGear hits a new milestone – 10000 blog posts

It has been 30 months since we started SlashGear and today we’ve posted our 10000th entry. Vincent and I would like to thank our readers, staffs (Chris Davies, Chris Barr, Abby McVay, and Daniel Lim), and our sponsor Quartics for the support and hard work.

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Introducing Simply Craving – All about food

We’ve recently launch a new site on our network. No, it’s not another tech related site on Aradius Network – this time it’s a food site. Simply Craving is our latest blog that focuses on food from different culture and places. So fire up your browser and type simplycraving.com.

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Do you know we twitt? Follow us on Twitter

We write more or less fifty blog entries daily throughout the weekdays and I know keeping up with us sometimes takes more time than you really want to spend staring at computer screen (not that we don’t welcome your excitement to read our entries). To make your life easier, SlashGear, PhoneMag, and iPhoneBuzz twitts. You’ll [...]

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I’ve got faster upstream on my FIOS

I sync Aradius sites data as backups to several servers and services around the world; on top of that I regularly use rsync to mirror those data to my local NAS to keep as a local backup. While doing this entire backup thing for the sites, I’ve realized that I never backup any of my [...]

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Aradius Ad Sales is Now Handled by Netshelter

Aradius ad sales was part of my duty from day to day, but having this task on my plate kept me away from doing other things such as infrastructure development and company management. Aradius Media Network has grown tremendously since Vincent and I first launched it in 2006. As of today, Netshelter will be Aradius [...]

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Planning for CES 2008

I’m taking this weekend to plan our CES 2008 trip. Almost all SlashGear’s editorial team will be there. Chris Davies will be flying in from England, and hopefully one of our partners can make in too from Singapore. SlashGear will have around eight attendee for the upcoming CES, we did managed to get a lot [...]

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