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Position: Ruby on Rails Developer
Location: Digital depot, The Digital Hub, Dublin 8
Terms: Full Time
Salary: Neg

Description: Dediserve is a specialist cloud based virtual server provider, built on bespoke software management and service orchestration platforms.

Through our unique platform, customers can provision and manage cloud servers dynamically as required, while our custom software monitors billing events and provides access to our support services.

We are looking for a ruby on rails developer to join the dediserve team, to work on constantly improving and updating the existing infrastructure. This is a great opportunity for someone with the right attributes to join a fast growing start-up.

Have a look over on Dediserve for full specs.

If you  spend alot of time working direct from the command line , you can easily get lost among tons of directories , i have come across a couple

of bash commands that make things abit easier on the eye.

Note – to use any of these prompts, you can copy & paste the “PS1=” line directly into your terminal. To make the change permanent, paste the line to the end of your ~/.bashrc file.

Color manage your prompt

There’s nothing particularly fancy about this prompt, other than the good use of color to separate the different pieces of information. As you can see, it provides time, username, hostname, and current directory. Fairly minimal but useful.

Code

PS1=”\[\033[35m\]\t\[\033[m\]-\[\033[36m\]\u\[\033[m\]@\[\033[32m\]\h:\[\033[33;1m\]\w\[\033[m\]\$ “

Show full path

This one’s a nice, clean, minimal 2-line prompt (plus a blank line at the top). You’ve got your full path at the first line and pretty much just the username at the bottom. If you want to remove the blank line at the start of every prompt, just take out the first “\n”.

Code

PS1=”[\[\033[32m\]\w]\[\033[0m\]\n\[\033[1;36m\]\u\[\033[1;33m\]-> \[\033[0m\]“

Over the last two years or so, the use of the word “cloud” has been associated with just about every hosting product coming onto the market.This has lead to some real confusion to just what is “the cloud”.

Here at dediserve we define the cloud as simply:

“Spreading your infrastructure needs and requirements across traditional technologies and hardware using virtualisation technologies to provide a higher level of redundancy and availability than was previously achievable”

Read more here

I Currently Have one server lying around that im offering at a cut-price , the server spec includes:

• 2 x Xeon 3.0Ghz CPU
• 3Gb RAM
• 2 x 250Gb SATA drives
• RAID 1
• Full Root Access
• Remote Reboot Capability
• Unlimited Free IP Addresses with Justification
• Fully Redundant Cisco Network
• Secure state of the art data centre facility
• Web Portal for easy invoice management and ticket tracking
• 24/7 Technical Support

Price – €149.95 ex VAT per month , Free Set-up , simply sign up for the dedicatedB server option Here and in the Provisioning Notes box , note it as the special offer.

As Part of My Final Year college project i built out a simple web monitoring tool with graphical uptime stats and real time e-mail alerts , i have now manage to finally get round to throwing this up on the domain i got a couple of years ago Webmonitor.ie , its PHP with a MySql database. It could be a great starting point for someone to develop on furthur into a more enterprise level tool. It’s released under the opensouce Public Domain , which means basically that anyone can do anything they want with your code. Be great to see someone develop it on furthur.

Just Put together a nice table on the different price comparisons between each VPS providers

See http://blog.dediserve.com/?p=255 for details , or to leave any feedback on companies i have

missed out on.

As a server provider we constantly speak with customers about the best architecture for their server set-up. Ideally you are looking to provide a redundant, scalable server cluster with a good spec on a redundant platform at a good price.

This is something Dediserve can now provide at exceptional value , via a single user interface you can easily manage multiple virtual machines all running different technologies , you can have a dedicated mail server , database server and web server in your own virtualized cluster for as little as  €60 per month, and easily upgrade each individual server as the requirement of that server grows, meaning if you have a large database but small website , easily upgrade the database server to handle the added load whilst leaving the web server as is.

More over on the dediserve.com Blog…..

Just posted this over on the dediserve blog

Django is one of a couple of pre-installed applications we currently offer on our virtual private servers , a summary on the django website describes it as “a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.”

See Here for Full Post…….