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Travel Butlers, African Safari Holiday Specialists - Google Maps development
Travel Butlers provide tailored holiday packages in South Africa and the neighbouring countries. Traditionally their website development had been done in-house but they needed some advanced Google Maps API programming to push their site forward and make the experience for their customers that little bit better.Working together with Travel Butler's...from Technology Blog -
A pseudo Windows sudo
Often when using the command prompt in Windows Vista and Windows 7 you'll need to run the command as an Administrator and whilst running a command prompt elevated is not tough, it's fiddly. If you've forgotten to do it before you've moved your way around the file system it can...from Technology Blog -
Setting up MySQL Cluster in the cloud
Before embarking on a MySQL Cluster installation, it is important to remember that MySQL Cluster is 'just' a storage engine for your existing MySQL database servers. It stores data at the table level, not the whole database, it is therefore on the same functional level as MyISAM or INNODB. You...from Technology Blog -
Load Balancing and failover for replicated MySQL
NB: At present you cannot request or share additional internal IP addresses with Rackspace Cloud, so you are going to have to use the external addresses. With large databases this will incur additional bandwidth charges, be sure to evaluate this additional cost against the benefits provided by high availability. When...from Technology Blog -
MySQL Master to Master Replication on Rackspace Cloud
To go with our Load Balanced Web Cluster, which provides good availability for your web services, providing high availability for your database is also likely to be an important requirement. In most modern web apps, there's not much use having your webservers available constantly if your database is down.There are...from Technology Blog -
IPTables / Firewall set up for clusters
Upon creation, most Rackspace Cloud Servers have a completely open firewall policy that will allow any computer into any port on your machine. Linux uses IPTables to firewall connections into and out of your server but needs a fair amount of configuration to get it working and for it to...from Technology Blog -
Create a Load Balanced Web Service on Rackspace Cloud
When we first wanted to load balance web servers, we initially followed Rackspace Cloud's articles on the subject. They recommended using mod_proxy with Apache. This took a little while to set up and even with countless amounts of config changes, every now and then requests would get lost and you'd have...from Technology Blog -
"Dixcart's Managed Office Service a Success"
The Dixcart Group has a number of serviced offices in different locations including Surrey, Isle of Man and Madeira with a new office being set up in Guernsey before the end of the year. They have performed well in each of the existing locations. The Isle of Man centres, have however, enjoyed a huge amount of interest since...from Technology Blog -
Reducing data bills when roaming
Although data costs when at home are practically zero these days, and there are plans to reduce the cost of roaming when in the EU, using data whilst roaming is presently very costly and with more reliance on fetching e-mail whilst away from the office, bills have already started to...from Technology Blog -
Joboso.com - Simple Job Board Management
Dixcart Technical Solutions are working for a client on the beta of Joboso.com which allows job seekers to automatically register themselves with multiple job boards, affiliates to offer this service to their user base and job boards to get more relevant people signed up....from Technology Blog
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Dixcart blogs contain information on a number of the business areas that Dixcart is involved in. Initially the blogs will mainly concern IT, tech support and web design and development. Future blogs will cover Dixcart’s commercial and professional services. The Commercial blog will include articles and comments on: Serviced Offices, Captive Insurance, Incorporation and Management of Companies, QROPS and Trusts.
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