Mammoth VPS is now live
After many months of hard work, our new service Mammoth VPS was launched this week. The service is a good fit for us I think, making use of the many years of experience we’ve had managing servers at Telstra; but being virtualized requiring relatively little physical hands-on work at the data centre.
It was also an interesting project from a development point of view, figuring out how to automate all the various Xen related tasks. We have also taken the presumedly un-usual route of running the load-balanced ASP.NET web application on both Windows and Linux. This required partially reimplementing the built-in FormsAuthentication class (which behaves differently in Mono) to allow the session cookie to be readable on both platforms, but otherwise is performing well. The website’s load times are really snappy, so I’m happy in that regard.