Server monitoring is a vital part of Gossamer Threads’ hosting platform. Recently, we updated our Gossamer Eye monitoring system to keep up with the growth of our server racks. While we’d made plenty of modifications to that system to match growth in the past, we realised this time that we were passing a benchmark number of servers and needed a ground-up reconstruction of our monitoring system. Here’s how we rebuilt Gossamer Eye…
It’s no secret that people are concerned about information security while doing business online. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is list of protective, preemptive measures enforced within organisations which process credit card payments.
So, what does PCI/DSS have to do with you?
Gossamer Threads is proud to unveil our hosted version of the powerful Bricolage CMS. When running on Gossamer Threads’ platform, the Bricolage application excels in speed and stability.
As a software company selling products for websites, we deal with all types of hosting environments, yet few perform to our expectations. Customers often outgrow their hosting or experience hosting related problems and have to go back and forth between their hosting companies and us, when all they want is to have their site running smoothly.
Our response? Nuts to this, we’ll do it ourselves! With our extensive software expertise coupled with the experience gained in dealing with hundreds of hosting companies, we created a platform that truly expresses how we think hosting should be.
And so, in 2002, Gossamer Host was born! Come along with us and have a gander at what we’ve built in our data centre in Vancouver, BC!