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Dedicated Fedora Linux Server

Although Fedora was formally unveiled only in September 2004, its origins effectively date back to 1995 when it was launched by two Linux visionaries -- Bob Young and Marc Ewing -- under the name of Red Hat Linux. The company's first product, Red Hat Linux 1.0 "Mother's Day", was released in the same year and was quickly followed by several bug-fix updates. In 1997, Red Hat introduced its revolutionary RPM package management system with dependency resolution and other advanced features which greatly contributed to the distribution's rapid rise in popularity and its overtaking of Slackware Linux as the most widely-used Linux distribution in the world. In later years, Red Hat standardised on a regular, 6-month release schedule.

In 2003, just after the release of Red Hat Linux 9, the company introduced some radical changes to its product line-up. It retained the Red Hat trademark for its commercial products, notably Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and introduced Fedora Core, a Red Hat-sponsored, but community-oriented distribution designed for the "Linux hobbyist". After the initial criticism of the changes, the Linux community accepted the "new" distribution as a logical continuation of Red Hat Linux. A few quality releases was all it took for Fedora to regain its former status as one of the best-loved operating systems on the market. At the same time, Red Hat quickly became the biggest and most profitable Linux company in the world, with an innovative product line-up and other interesting initiatives, such as its Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification programme.

Although Fedora's direction is still largely controlled by Red Hat, Inc. and the product is sometimes seen -- rightly or wrongly -- as a test bed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, there is no denying that Fedora is one of the most innovative distributions available today. Its contributions to the Linux kernel, glibc and GCC are well-known and its more recent integration of SELinux functionality, Xen virtualisation technologies and other enterprise-level features are much appreciated among the company's customers. On a negative side, Fedora still lacks a clear desktop-oriented strategy that would make the product easier to use for those beyond the "Linux hobbyist" target.

Features and benefits of a Cybercon Dedicated Fedora Linux Server:

  • 100% Network Uptime Guaranteed! The Cybercon data center maintains direct connections to four of the top five Internet backbones: ATT, Verizon/MCI/UUNET, Qwest and Level 3. Cybercon's IP Network is powered by redundant high capacity Cisco data center routers and switches.

  • One Hour Hardware Replacement Guarantee! Reliable equipment means hardware failures are extremely rare. In the event of a failure, Cybercon will repair or replace the equipment within one hour - 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

  • Managed services included: Server monitoring, unlimited server reboots, and unlimited application service restarts.

  • Technical Experties: Serving thousands of servers for over 10 years, we have extensive experience with Red Hat Linux, CentOS Linux, Fedora Linux, Debian Linux, Slackware Linux, SuSE Linux and Solaris operating systems; Apache web server; Sendmail and Qmail mail servers; MySQL database server; PHP, IPtable, and more.

  • Free backup space: Receive 10GB of free backup space for each dedicated Solaris server (Additional backup space is available as an option). Cybercon RAID-6 backup systems provide twice the redundancy of the popular RAID 5 systems. Our backup systems support iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, and FTP.

  • Live on-site technical support: available 24x7x365 by email, telephone or through our user friendly on-line support web portal.

  • State-of-the-art data center facility includes diesel power generators, UPS, environmental cooling systems, multi-level security, and pre-action fire suppression systems.

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