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Sophos have written up a nice, comprehensive overview of IPv6 and why we need to all switch to it from a security perspective. Do take a read and always consider whether your hosting provider supports IPv6 before making any moves. GigaTux supports it na… more »

KVM has, quite rightly, been getting a lot of press since its full functionality was introduced in to the mainline kernel earlier this year. However, some communities have assumed this has sounded the death knell for Xen. This article at the Xen blog off… more »

A very interesting article from The Register has been published which contains information on how many different virtualisation technologies companies use at the time. This clearly shows that there is no single winner when it comes to commercial use of t… more »

The guys at Turnkey Linux have just released a new set of appliances, along with updates to their existing ones. They've added a whopping 25 new appliances, all of which we will have available shortly at GigaTux for install on our VPS systems. They've… more »

Your choice of underlying virtualisation technology really matters. Headlines from other VPS providers offering hundreds of megabytes of burst memory, along with simply fitting more VMs onto a physical server, do make it difficult to compete on raw fig… more »