A follow up to our previous blog regarding Slackware and our development of a new hosting control panel.
We’re now well underway in building the control panel that we’ve codenamed: Mantis.
Features:
- Source built server daemons for improved speed and security. We have custom configured all aspects of ALL web facing daemons based on 8 [...]

One of my earliest memories of Linux was of slackware. The hardcore distro, the most unix-like Linux of all Linuxes, it enshrined my geekyness. Our revered maestro is Pat Volkerding.
Linux is widespread now mainly because of Canonical’s ubuntu. It’s ease of use, it just ‘works’.
This establishes a 2-tier system of Linux that only previously existed [...]

Web designers and web hosting providers often go hand in hand. The reputation of a designer can be raised or critically damaged by the quality of the web hosting provision behind those new snazzy sites. It’s critical therefore that a designer chooses a web hosting provider with care.
A few questions a designer should ask themselves.
1. [...]