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Archive for December, 2010
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MakanDeals.com – Singapore’s Preferred Restaurants
MakanDeals.com marks Kidotech’s first foray into the consumer market, after working on enterprise web/ mobile projects for the past 6 years.
MakanDeals.com is an online-only marketplace platform, where users are able to get discounted dining deals with our restaurant partners. We work out long term agreements with restaurants and bring these deals to the users.
MakanDeals.com choose our Restaurant Partners carefully.
- Good food/ atmosphere/ crowd ( Each partner restaurant is clearly defined and described by MakanDeals; We want to be your reliable guide to dining in Singapore.)
- Reliable & trusted ( We want partners who are committed to our users and deals; the last thing we want is for the consumer to turn up and run into problems using their vouchers)
- Long-term relationship (Business is a relationship, we want to prove our business model and provide a valuable service to both the restaurants & users. And we expect to build on this relationship over time.)
So if you see a restaurant that you like on MakanDeals.com, you know that we have personally tried each one of them and can wholeheartedly recommend them.
Some of our partners:
so do check out MakanDeals.com & see what deals we have on offer!
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Archive post: Homebrew ESXi + Openfiler iSCSI
finally got our home (office) brewed storage (openfiler iscsi) into the datacentre, to maximise the dell r805 server.Decent specs: HP DL380G3- 2 x 3.2ghz xeon
- 12 gb ram (yes, i know, overkill)
- 6 x scsi 73gb (1 x ESXi installation, 5 x raid 5)
Dell R805 server, nice specs for ESXi server, but the local storage is limited.- 2 x sas (put them in raid 1, and it’s 136gb max)
with openfiler hooked into it ( 2 x cat6 cross cable), the additional 256gb makes it much more flexible. (8 cpu cores, 8gb ram (upgradable to 32gb))observations:
we had a guest win2k3 std server (running mssql 2k), it was reporting high cpu usage, periodically.
once the shared storage went in, the cpu % has been more normal.
it is likely due to low harddisk (for esxi swap) and overall memory used. (more memory needed = more swaps = more cpu usage) -
Archive post: Cheap and quiet solution for a test/local network ESXi Server
was reading the article: ”Cheap and quiet solution for a home-based ESX Server” [url]
gonna give my props to HP workstation xw4000; we have gotten 3 units.
- 4GB ram
- intel core 2 duo (6300 @ 1.8ghz)
- 4 x sata drives
- 1 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5755 Gigabit (onboard)
- dual head nvidia quadro
- Win XP Pro
ESXi 3.5 U2/ Openfiler v2.3 installs out of the box. for a low cheap price of < S$600.
and it runs so quiet….
We have ESXi running on one of the machines, another one is running XP Pro (with VM Workstation, running a virtualised copy of Domain controller (win2k server). 3rd machine is a standby machine for a client’s project (part of support/ maintenance)
and coming soon, an external esxi + openfiler machine, to look up to the ESXi server as shared storage.
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Archive Post: Virtualisation for SMEs
We have been pushing virtualisation within kidotech, for testing as well as production servers.
Our first production server was the dell R805, a nicely spec-ed server with dual amd quadcore processors and space for plenty of ram, main drawback is the lack of local storage (2 x SAS drives) (we maxed those out, at 2 x 147GB (raid 1), and have been running 5 VMs on it.
1 x MSSQL2000 (win2k3 server)
4 x CentOS 5.2 (apache/ tomcat 6)
performance-wise, no complains; administration is also a breeze, the ability to clone and deploy (a standard image), console access via VI Client.
we have now reached the local storage limit, now looking for options as shared storage (NAS, SAN)
got a pair of HP xw4000 workstations (ESXi works out of the box) in the office to experiment with shared storage.
looking at openfiler/ freenas and a simple implementation of directly connecting the storage via a ethernet cross-cable.
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Welcome to the new kidotech.com
the old site has been around since 2005, it’s long overdue for a change!
just in time for January 2011, where kidotech will be 6 years old.
it’s been an exciting ride, and 2011 will be year of change as we look to the future.
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