GigaTux News

GigaTux is proud to announce that we now support all versions of Turnkey Linux on our standard Virtual Private Server packages. Automatic installs and reinstalls of any Turnkey Operating System can be performed through the provided web interface, and basic support is provided.

The following distributions are immediately available for automatic install:

• Turnkey Joomla
• Turnkey Drupal 6
• Turnkey Drupal 5
• Turnkey Django
• Turnkey Core
• Turnkey LAMP Stack
• Turnkey LAPP Stack
• Turnkey MediaWiki
• Turnkey MySQL
• Turnkey phpBB
• Turnkey PostgreSQL
• Turnkey Rails
• Turnkey Tomcat
• Turnkey Wordpress

This joins the following Operating Systems which are already available for automatic install:

• Debian Lenny (can be downgraded if necessary)
• Ubuntu 9.04 or 8.04
• Fedora Core
• Mandriva
• Gentoo
• Centos

For full details of this announcement, including information on vouchers available, please click here.

Due to decreased IP transit costs, we are passing on the savings to you in the form of an increased bandwidth allowance and decreased extra bandwidth costs. The new allowances, per month, have been increased by a third for all 'E' customers, i.e. those on Solo E to Enterprise E packages. In addition, the cost of bandwidth used outside your allowace has been decreased from 20p/GB down to 4p/GB.

Things have been fairly quiet on the GigaTux front for the last few months, which is a good thing! Our second server has now been up for 165 days non-stop, proving that you will have a very reliable platform if you choose us for your VPS solution.

We will, in the near future, be announcing the availability of updated control panel software, with enhanced automated operating system installation options. Watch this space!

GigaTux is proud to announce that our second server is now up and running. It is in the final stages of being configured to accept new customers, and has the following specification:

• Core 2 Quad Q6600
• 2 x 1TB hard disks (RAID 1)
• 8 GB RAM
• 1U form factor

Because this has a vastly different configuration to our first server, the available VPS configurations have changed, with prices being changed accordingly. We believe this continues to offer extremely good value for money, along with the combined stability our first server has given us.

Things have been fairly quiet at GigaTux recently. Not because nothing's going on, but because our servers have again had the chance to prove how stable they are. Having now been in business for over a year, we can happily say that the only times we have had downtime is when our servers have had to be physically moved. On both occasions, there was ample notice and the entire process only took a few hours in the middle of the night. Hopefully that is proof that reliability need not come with a high price!

There may be a very short amount of website outage within the next day or two while the main GigaTux website is moved to a different server. This outage does not affect any of our customers.