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Welcome to the new Yonti.co.uk blog website where we will keep you informed with all the latest news from Yonti, and the world wide web on all things tech and web related.

As you probable can see the main Yonti site is now well out dated, with the new service still being based on cloud services, but this time we are focusing into a new untapped market to bring gaming to a whole new level! More information will be released as this blog matures and as the project is getting nearer to launch, so check back frequently for status updates, and news.

The old Yonti.co.uk will be removed over the coming day’s with a place holder that will redirect you to this blog. We aim to keep this updated frequently with new advancements in technology as well as industry and project news.

More news to be added soon! Check back then.

Treasury minister Stephen Timms is to take charge of delivering the plan for the future of the UK digital industry.

Mr Timms, who remains as financial secretary to the Treasury, will report in the new role to Lord Mandelson and Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw.The Digital Britain blueprint was published in June by ex-communications minister Lord Carter. The plan proposed measures including a £6-a-year charge on all phone lines to pay for next generation broadband.

The plan’s other key points include making broadband access available to all by 2012, a changed role for Channel 4, a consultation on how to fund local, national and regional news and a push towards digital radio. Mr Timms is a former e-commerce minister who previously worked in the telecommunications sector. Downing Street said creative industries minister Sion Simon would lead on aspects of the report in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, with the work overseen by Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw and Business Secretary Lord Mandelson.

Micro-blogging service Twitter was taken offline for more than two hours on Thursday in what the company believes was a co-ordinated attack.

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The project were are currently working on and aiming to launch in November is a Linux game server, which  you may say, that’s been done before, well it has.

The Current market for renting private Game Servers is already saturated, so is the plain Web Hosting market, this is where we aim to be different. We aim to provide a very similar service to the current game server rental, whilst giving it a small twist, where by each server “renter” gets gets there own virtual server with only that game on it and a simple web interface to manage it. again you will say that is already out there, so what’s different, i hear you ask. Our service will not only be individual servers, that’s it, they will also be for rent by the day, which is a completely new concept in the game server rental market.

As the technology progresses we will be able to cut that time down to the hour, with other added features such as Automated Reboots for a failed server, Real Time Server Scaling, allowing you to cope with demand, on your game server. All this won’t cost as much as you think it will for you the consumer, with no monthly contracts to hold the service you will be charged mere pennies an hour to run your game server, with full root control of it, if you wish.

Payment will be via a credits system, with credits equalling a set number of hours each, depending on the server size. For example our smallest server may cost 0.25 credits per hour to run, where as our next one up would be 0.5 per hour. This Credits system gives you the flexibilty to spend as much as, or as little as you want when you sign up, of course the more you by the cheaper it will be.

We also may include an off-line payment solution to allow users without a credit or debit card to still be able to use our service. This feature will be powered by PayOffline, which is supported by Alliance & Leicester in the UK.  This methods will have a minimum credit amount, compared to on-line payment methods as well as the delay in getting your credits, as payment has to be made over a counter and is not instantly recognised in the system.

Typically, there are two main ways of debugging server-side code: you can utilize an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) with a built-in debugger or log and perform your debugging processes in a web browser.

This article shares an elegant, simple, and more maintainable way of debugging Ajax apps via the web browser (more specifically for the Mozilla Firefox browser). You’ll learn the basics of leveraging Firefox in conjunction with Firebug and FirePHP to implement FirePHP libraries on web apps and logging messages in the Firebug console.

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1: SaaS

Software-as-a-service keeps growing and growing and growing, experts and analysts say, with many large companies adding SaaS components to on-premise software installations. Salesforce.com, considered the bellwether of the SaaS industry, reported record revenue of $305 million, up 23% from 2008, in its fiscal first quarter ended April 30, 2009. SaaS is winning favor because it’s often 20% cheaper than managing a non-premise application, Hinchcliffe says. “SaaS is on track to be the dominant model for software by 2012. There are still lots of security issues, but the economics are definitely there.” The other sweeping advantage is the flexibility that companies gain by rapidly adding new functionality. “The paradigm shift is where you can go acquire a piece of what you need and assemble that into the software that you already own,” Wilson says. (continue reading…)