(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Security solutions developer Ksplice (www.ksplice.com) announced the general availability of its Uptrack service, which eliminates the need to restart Linux servers when installing crucial updates and security patches.
System administrators normally have to schedule downtime in advance to update the Linux kernel on servers. Based on technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (web.mit.edu), Ksplice Uptrack is a subscription service that allows IT administrators to keep Linux servers up-to-date without the disruption and downtime of rebooting.
“Why reboot if you don’t have to? Reboots are disruptive and require costly supervision,” said Jeff Arnold, Ksplice’s chief executive officer. “Now system administrators can keep their systems up to date without coordinating outages, and they don’t need to come in Sunday at 2 a.m. to take everything down. They can avoid the biggest headache of server maintenance, with better availability and a smaller window of vulnerability than ever before.”
More than 40 top web hosts and IT infrastructure companies have saved tens of thousands of reboots to date by deploying Ksplice Uptrack.
“We’ve been thrilled with how Ksplice makes us more secure and available while saving us time and hassle,” said Dallas Kashuba, the co-founder and chief technical officer of DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com), an early adopter of Ksplice Uptrack. “Using Ksplice has improved our response time to critical kernel exploits from a few days to only minutes,” he said.
Ksplice Uptrack is now available for users of six leading versions of Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Debian GNU/Linux, CentOS, Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, and OpenVZ. After a 30-day free trial, the subscription fee starts at $3.95 per month per system. A free version is also available for Ubuntu.
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