Silicon Beach Australia Google Group

Re: [SiliconBeach] Redundant Servers

2010-01-06T13:20:21Z

How important is it for you to be 100% up? If you can do with, say,
30min downtime if something fails, all you may need is a virtual
server that is regularly backed up and can be brought back to the last
stored state.
If you need 100% uptime, you need to indeed put several servers in
place and failover (or at minimum a load balancer that notices when

Re: [SiliconBeach] Redundant Servers

2010-01-06T13:08:16Z

Hi Phil,
Not a system admin by profession but here are a couple of quastions that
might help us relate and may be put our experiance here.
Do you have a backup plan at the moment?
What is your software and hardware stack?
What type of redundancy are you planing for? hardware/software failure only
or fire and power outages too? i.e. Offsite/Onsite.

Re: Redundant Servers

2010-01-06T11:34:02Z

If you're automating failover it may be easier to have 3+ servers so
that you can operate on the basis of a quorum of 2. The automation and
failover methodology you select will depend on your networks options,
software stack and availability policy. On the off chance PostgreSQL
and Pacemaker fit your stack feel free to contact me off-list for more

Redundant Servers

2010-01-06T08:31:24Z

Hi all, we're finally moving to put in place a redundant server and
failover.
We've running a local primary server and a redundant server on rackspace.
I'm interested in what other people are doing in terms of failover. Are you
automating it, and if so how are you doing it? Semi-automation? Manual? Not

RE: [SiliconBeach] Re: Hello! / Gold Coast Meet Up? / Office space / Sales person needed

2010-01-06T01:20:16Z

Steve,
Thanks for that detailed info. Just to reinforce: the Wiki page for all of us to add our details to is [link]
It would be nice of course if we had some other meta-data here (so you could see all of the start-ups in your neighbourhood, or who are in a certain industry, etc), but I'd better shut up now before I end up volunteering to build such a thing...

Re: Hello! / Gold Coast Meet Up? / Office space / Sales person needed

2010-01-06T01:11:03Z

Hi Auley
We are on the Gold Coast (but our entire company is consulting in
Brisbane at the moment!) - if you search back through the
introductions post on googlegroups then you will find info about me
and our company.
There is stuff happening on the Gold Coast and I'm surprised you were
not able to find anything. I keep a reasonably up to date list at

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Introductions

2010-01-06T00:51:22Z

Hi Charles,
Welcome to the group. Actually I think we have met before at University.
Thanks for your generous offer of publicity and connection to your networks.
I'm in the prototype stages of a new venture at the moment, so in the near
future I'd love to take you up on your offer and meet with you offline.

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-05T21:25:19Z

Alex,
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which of the following four offers the biggest market?
which potentially will offer the highest profit margin?
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Consumer applications probably offer the biggest market for what
you're trying to do but also present the highest risk for you as a

Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-05T20:59:58Z

@Phil Sim, @Joz Ong, @Matt Moore: Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I definitely agree.
This reminds me what happened to Google vs. Altavista war. Basically
Google
won because they figured out PageRank is a better way to raise
signal/noise ratio.
What you're suggesting here, especially the authority rank by retweets

Re: Introductions

2010-01-05T14:42:03Z

Hi Everyone,
Just heard about and joined this group yesterday.
I'm Charles, a comp sci student at UNSW; I developed an interest in
the startup scene last year after going to a couple barcamps, reading
a whole bunch, and seeing some pitching/business plan competitions.
I'm still a startup virgin having never started my own business, but I

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-05T11:43:15Z

Interesting that you cite autonomy as being a different type of play. They
actually have an Expert Locator in their product set, so I'd suggest they'll
be a major if not your biggest competitor.
As Twendly stands now, I don't see a great deal of value add as opposed to
just doing a simple key word search on Twitter and pulling the names out.

Re: Hello! / Gold Coast Meet Up? / Office space / Sales person needed

2010-01-05T11:43:05Z

Cheers mate. Facebook is a great place to look, and use to organise
something if I can round anyone up from the GC.
Will be interesting to see what the next Bris meeting is like, anyone
here been to one?

Re: Enterprise Entrepreneurs Meetup

2010-01-05T10:48:07Z

While I'm not really in the enterprise space (and I need another
meetup like a hole in the head ;) I am really interested. Will
definitely come along to the first couple to hear more about what you
guys are working on.
Ned
On Jan 5, 8:26 pm, "Kurt @ Bridge Systems" <k...@bridgesystems.com.au>
wrote:

Re: [SiliconBeach] Hello! / Gold Coast Meet Up? / Office space / Sales person needed

2010-01-05T10:58:27Z

Hi Auley,
its not the GC, but check this out:
[link]
This is open coffee Brisbane which also has official drinks as well every
fortnight or month or so and they get a few people along.
might be something that you could cruise along to at some point to see if

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Long time SB member, new entrepreneur seeking your assitance on ideas for our site

2010-01-05T10:50:07Z

So there's a few things to think about. Finding experts, decision-
makers etc is part of the puzzle. But once you've found then you have
to actually engage them. I had a recent experience where I needed info
on a particular product. Using my social network, I found the actual
developer of the product within a few hours. I spent 2 weeks trying to