Welcome Ashley Lipscombe to our team

Please join us in welcoming the newest addition to our team Ashley Lipscombe.

Ashley will be helping man our customer support desk, keep our servers running smoothly, and stay on top of security and bug fix updates. He has 5 years relevant work experience under his belt including working with Linux servers, hosting control panel systems, email, domain names and virtual servers.

In addition to his excellent customer support skills, Ashley brings fresh ideas and a new perspective to further improve  our business processes and product line.

Aside from technology, Ashley enjoys travel, socialising and playing video games. Originally from London, Ashley is now based in sunny Malta.

CentOS 7 released

Our Linux OS of choice, CentOS, have just released version 7.  See the announcement and the release notes for details.

For the first time, there will be a supported migration path from CentOS 6 to 7, so customers currently running on CentOS 6 will in future be able to upgrade to CentOS 7 with minimal work involved. Customers running CentOS 5 who wish to move to 7 will need to provision a new CentOS 7 VM and migrate their data as was the case with previous CentOS upgrades.

For any customers wishing to upgrade we will as always be happy to provide an additional VM running CentOS 7 which you can run in parallel to your existing VM(s) while you migrate your data for up to 30 days free of charge. Contact us for details.

CentOS 5.10 released

For customers running CentOS 5 on their Virtual Servers, a new release has just been announced which includes mostly bug fixes and security updates but also a few new packages.

The full release notes are here.

The biggest change affecting Anu customers on CentOS 5 is that MySQL 5.0 is being deprecated in favour of version 5.5. Future updates will only be released for MySQL 5.5, so we advise customers to upgrade. If you are running CentOS 5 and would like to upgrade MySQL to 5.5 please contact Anu support for assistance.