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In August we launched the Easy Start program granting startups hosting on attractive conditions. We promised to publish articles about the startups we had selected in our blog.The first publication has just appeared in our blog. This is an interview with Yevgeni Gordeev, the founder of the Pluso Social Buttons Service (in Russian only).

Our clients sometimes ask us if it is possible to mine bitcoins on our dedicated servers. That is why we decided to test the productivity of our servers by making them generate bitcoins. We have just published the results of the test in our blog (in Russian only).

Our cloud storage supports FTP-connection. We have published an article about working with the storage via FTP. The artlicle includes setting instructions for popular FTP-clients. It is available in our blog (in Russian only).

We have introduced new options for Windows VDS users. The new edition of Windows Server 2012 (Windows Server 2012 R2 released in October 2013) is available for installation. Clients using Windows Virtual Servers can also select installation templates containing popular software (CMSs, MegaTrader trading platform, Sharepoint, etc.) already configured and ready for use. For further information please consult our blog (in Russian only).

The second article about Hadoop has been published in our blog. It deals with collecting data using Flume. The article is available here (in Russian only).

We start a great sellout of dedicated servers. It is organized according to the principles of the so-called Dutch auction. Several configurations arе displayed for sale. The duration of the sale is limited. The price of each server is lowered until some participant is willing to accept it. You can rent a server at a very attractive price but remember that someone can leave you behind and puchase the server you need while you are waiting. The detailed description of the terms of the sellout has been published in our blog recently (in Russian only).

As it is well-known, *.nix operating systems are installed from mirrors. Our company has its own mirror. An article about the organzation and the work of the mirror has been published in our blog recently (available in Russian only).

Blktrace is a useful tool allowing to trace all operations inside Linux block I/O layer. We have published an article about using blktrace and auxiliary tools allowing to analyze and visualize I/O statistics. It is available in our blog (in Russian only).