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About Our Company
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 is a company for sysadmins
(System Administrators). We are sysadmins providing services to sysadmins. Our customers are
technical people who knows quality hardware when they see it, and appreciate having competent
sysadmins as their first line of support. Think of us as a sysadmin boutique™.
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Xssist provides web hosting, VPS and dedicated servers; and specialise in
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1. Opteron Servers on the hardware side (standardize on the servers used,
and stock up fanatically on spare parts), even CPUs. For example, we have 10 x Quad Opteron
chassis (same model), and 60 x Dual Opteron (single/ dual core) chassis as of July 07. Using Opterons
allow us to use the model 1xx CPUs up to 8xx CPUs; from single core to dual core without
changing motherboards. Just change the CPU, if more processing power is required. We use
the same SCSI RAID cards for all our servers, and use mainly SCSI disks; using IDE, and SATA upon
customer request.
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2. CentOS (RedHat Enterprise Linux clone) for OS on our own servers. We do
provide installation and license for Windows 2003 (both Standard and Enterprise editions) and
MSSQL if required, for dedicated servers. However, our focus is on linux.
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3. Virtuozzo for our Virtual Private Servers (VPS). Xssist being a linux shop;
we considered mainly 2 products, Virtuozzo (OS Partitioning/ Virtualization) and Xen (Virtual
Machine/ VMM). Xssist's choice is Virtuozzo. We choose Virtuozzo because it is much more mature
than Xen as at Dec 05. When it comes to production servers, "mature" takes precedence over
"developmental". Xen is good, has many supporters, and appears to have a bright future,
but is mainly "beta" for now. 28 Apr 2007: It has been over a year since
the comments on Xen. We have done very well with the support of customers, and have been busy provisioning
servers, and supporting customers in return. This deprives us of time to experiment outside of our
specialties; and it may no longer be fair to label Xen beta without revisiting it. Therefore, we are
striking off that comment. We are now an official SWsoft partner, and we provide Virtuozzo to customers,
so there is also conflict of interest.
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4. cPanel for web hosting control panel. Customers are welcomed to install
directadmin, ensim etc. Our recommendation however, is for cPanel. We are an authorized cPanel partner,
and we are good in cPanel.
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5. Singapore presence. We choose to serve mainly customers operating from
Singapore, or need to have a server in Singapore or Asia Pacific region. Our servers are located
in Singapore data centres, our support is located in Singapore. We provide Singapore dedicated servers.
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Xssist's office is located
next to 1-Net data centre in Chai Chee, Singapore.
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Xssist™ Group Pte Ltd is a cPanel Partner NOC
cPanel &
WebHost Manager (WHM) is a web hosting control panel system.
Both cPanel & WHM are extremely feature rich as well as include an easy to use web based interface (GUI).
Our Linux Web Hosting packages are packed with unlimited features and administered
using cPanel.
Our Web Hosting Resellers have the ability to host sites limited only by their space,
creating your own packages and prices. WebHost Manager (WHM) allows you to but is not limited to administering individual
accounts, reseller accounts & performing basic system and control panel maintenance via a secure interface.
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May 07:
Stock low. Expect shipment of new servers in around 3 weeks.
Jun 07:
Servers arrived. Keeping stock status at orange (amber), as we are still low
on availability even with the additional servers. We are able to provide dual
socket, dual core opterons currently. Testing out quad socket, dual core opteron
servers; may use as VPS server if this works out.
Jul 07:
New shipment received. Stock status remain at orange (amber). We are still
selling faster than we can provision servers.
Jul 07:
Servers close to sold out. Status change to red.
Aug 07:
New stock arrived. Status changed to Green. Quad dual-core opteron servers
now available.
Sep 07:
Installed Juniper ISG 1000. Firewall capable of up to 1 GE, with 64 byte packets.
Sep 07:
Upgraded uplink from Fast Ethernet to Gigabit Ethernet. Increased committed
bandwidth from 45Mbps to 60Mbps. Increased number of racks to 11.
Apr 08:
20 new servers arrived. Increased number of racks to 15, committed bandwidth to 75 Mbps.
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