Website health checks are a crucial service to an operations team. In addition to in-house monitoring and service state reporting it’s also important, even critical, to have an impartial third party to run checks to test your customer facing services. There are a lot of companies in this arean that would be glad to have [...]

If there’s one thing that will always make me angry, it’s people that should not be editing my code going and editing my code. If you want to change something on the server and you have sudo privileges please let the real admin know beforehand. I don’t mind people improving processes or scripts but if [...]

Just got the following in my email this morning. I sure wish they had done this earlier. “Free Inbound Data Transfer (until June 30, 2010) Data Transfer into AWS will be free of charge from now through June 30, 2010, making it even easier for customers to get their data into AWS. This applies to [...]

This is a follow up on a previous post about Amazon’s EC2 cloud services. You may recall that I had the Kontrollbase demo server hosted there until I was hit with a >$370 bill for less than 2 weeks of service. Now, you may think you want to say “hey you should have known the [...]

Here’s a quick flowchart for the different ways that Kontrollbase gathers and processes data.

So it turns out that a VPS server, while inexpensive, is a poor choice for a demo server of a product. So the Kontrollbase demo is now hosted on a Sun X4100 quad-opteron with 8G ram and some nice SAS disks. The new demo site is http://demo02.kontrollbase.com , the old one is located here if [...]

There have been a lot of changes to the UI since the original screenshots were uploaded so it was about time that the page should reflect the current look on the application. Check them out here to see the new theme and features: http://kontrollsoft.com/screenshots

This should be an interesting advance for Kontrollbase. I recently acquired a older dual 2ghz G5 PPC Power Mac running 10.5.8 and have just finished the installation of MySQL Community 5.0.85 (mysql-5.0.85-osx10.5-powerpc-64bit). I should note that the installation process is actually easier than it is on RHEL with RPMs. Quite nice. So, given this new [...]

We decided that the simplest way for people to experience the new version of Kontrollbase was to setup an online, fully functional demo. Now you don’t have to download and install the application to see what it offers to your database environment. The application is free, the demo is free, check it out now: http://kontrollsoft.com/software-kontrollbase#demo [...]

We’re pleased to announce that Kontrollbase 2.0.1-rev70 is available as a VMware Appliance. This means you can download it and run it with VMware Player, Vmware Server 2, or ESXi 3.5 which greatly simplifies the whole installation process. It’s configured as follows: CentOS 5.2 64bit 1024MB RAM 8GB partition – autosized Apache 2 MySQL 5.0 [...]