GrokThis Xen Management Console

We have released 1.0.2 of our Open Source (GPL) management console.  Mostly incorporating bug-fixes but also improving automation to allow us to configure accounts more quickly and smoothly.

Secure Account Deletion

I'm not sure when we added this, but I think it is good to mention...  We are now performing secure account deletions of all VPS accounts.  When assigning new disk space to an account, we perform a secure file deletion in order to protect our customer's privacy and intellectual property.

Live Migration for Xen Domains (no, not quite yet...)

We have finally begun to configure new accounts on our SAN.  This is a technology that will eventually allow us to support live migration for our VPS customers.  Live migration means that if we need to shutdown a physical host, we can migrate customers to another physical host without affecting their uptime.

We will be performing upgrades to our network architecture and the SAN device itself to facilitate increased security, performance, and reliability for those customers already on the SAN (although no complaints yet!).  Our latest version of our Xen Management Console also adds features that help prepare us for our goal of supporting live migrations.

Mono Updates

We keep getting asked about it, but yes, we did upgrade to Mono 1.2.4, and yes we do support ASP.NET 2.0 and VB.NET!  As far as we know, the only thing that doesn't work are WebParts.