Our new GPU analysis tool has been deployed! This new tool will help you track scripts, software, and files which are causing GPUs on your Grid account to be used.
Our engineering team is now 50% complete implementing the enhanced SmartPool v.2 system for Grid-Service clients.
(gs) Grid-Service customers that have a MySQL GridContainer can now add multiple users to their accounts. Users can be given permissions on a per database basis. Customers can add up to 50 users for Advanced containers, 20 users for Pro containers and 10 users for Lite containers.
We’d like to take a moment on JFK’s birthday–the creator of the Peace Corps–to shine a light on one of our clients; kiva.org.
(mt) Engineers have performed various upgrades which include adding more RAM and applying system updates to the load balancers which handle all Grid related traffic. These upgrades have significantly increased their capacity to route requests and handle large amounts of load. This upgrade was performed with no downtime and Grid customers can immediately reap the benefits.
Our engineering team is now 30% complete with implementing the enhanced SmartPool v.2 system for Grid-Service clients.
The busy (mt) ninjas have updated our one-click WordPress install to 2.2 on the Grid.
The Zend Optimizer and both versions of PHP on the Grid have been updated today, the new versions are: PHP 4.4.7-1 PHP 5.2.2-1 Zend Optimizer 3.2.8 These versions have been thoroughly tested to work on the Grid.
Updated: Django GridContainer Beta now accepting applications. Due to increasing popularity and customer demand, our engineering team is working hard on getting a container infrastructure in place on the (gs) Grid-Service platform that will support Django.
We’re big fans of cool eye candy here at (mt), and one of the best toolkits out there for adding some snazzy effects to your site is Mootools.
We have received many reports of customers that would like the default character set of PostgreSQL databases set to UTF-8. Many applications require this character set so we have made it the default character set on all newly created PostgreSQL databases.
Some rails apps were failing to restart after a crash due to a number of reasons including stale mongrel.pid files.
The version of Ruby on the Grid has been upgraded from 1.8.2 to 1.8.5. All cluster nodes are now running the same version of Ruby that was previously only available inside our Ruby on Rails GridContainers.
Quick update on the on-going roll out of our new SmartPool v.2 system. There was a slight delay moving forward with the required upgrades to our database servers.
In our continuing effort to simplify and improve your AccountCenter experience we’re happy to announce the launch of the new AccountCenter dashboard.
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