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Archive: posts from April 2008

Jobs at Brightbox - Join the team! 14 Apr 08

Brightbox is looking for some new techie people to join the team. Depending on your skills you’ll be:

  • managing and developing our hosting systems
  • developing our free software Rails stack, based on Ubuntu
  • supporting our Rails/Merb hosting customers

There are full-time and part-time roles available and you can work remotely from anywhere in the world or at the office in Leeds (or a bit of both).  We’re still a small team so we need people with pretty diverse skills and, more importantly, an ability to learn new ones. Overall, the following special powers are necessary:

  • enthusiasm
  • problem solving
  • communication
  • great written and spoken English

Regarding particular skills, you’ll need experience with some of the following:

  • Coding: Ruby, C.
  • Ruby stuff: Rails, Merb, JRuby
  • Typical Rails/Merb deployment stuff: Mongrel, Capsitrano, Monit, Memcached
  • Web servers: NGINX, Lighttpd, Apache
  • Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • Clustering: RedHat Cluster Suite (CMAN, CLVM, GFS), Heartbeat
  • Virtualisation: Xen
  • Storage: Linux LVM, Linux RAID, AoE, Bacula.
  • Network Filesystems: NFS, Samba, Glusterfs
  • OS: RedHat Enterprise Server / Centos 5, Debian / Ubuntu
  • RPM / Deb packaging
  • Advanced Linux Networking: Routing, Bridging, Netfilter, QoS
  • Security: Technical auditing (Nessus, NMAP), Policy development.
  • Flame retardant killer robots

Send a hello, a CV and salary expectations to jobs@brightbox.co.uk. CVs should be in an open format, preferably plain text or PDF.

Recruitment agents should e-mail our special recruitment company email address: root@localhost.

Closing date for applications is 16th May.

Posted 14 April 2008 by John Leach ::: 1 comment

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NGINX 0.6 for Ubuntu Dapper 11 Apr 08

We’ve backported NGINX 0.6.29 packages from Debian experimental to Ubuntu Dapper and included the fair proxy balancer module.

It’s in our testing repository at the moment so give it a whirl (it will of course install on any Ubuntu Dapper box, not just Brightboxes).  We have a page on the Brightbox wiki on how to configure NGINX for your Brightbox apps too (which can easily be adjusted to any NGINX install really).

If you’re playing with any of this beta stuff (like these packages or the Brightbox gem) and have feedback or need help, feel free to discuss it on the Brightbox-beta Google group that i just set up.

Posted 11 April 2008 by John Leach ::: add comment

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MySQL Maintenance: Thur 17 April 22:00-23:00 8 Apr 08

We’ll be doing some maintenance work on the MySQL cluster next Thursday, the 17th April starting at 22:00 and taking around an hour. There will be a couple of seconds interruption to service at 22:00 as we switch between cluster nodes, then a few more seconds as we switch back at around 23:00.  We’ll keep you up to date as usual using the status feed.

The maintenance is to apply some software updates but we’re taking the opportunity to do some MySQL performance tuning at the same time.

Posted 8 April 2008 by John Leach ::: add comment

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