Not sure how many people know this, but today’s migration of San Francisco-based GitHub to RackSpace was architected, implemented and will be managed on an ongoing basis by Sydney-based Anchor.

For those unfamiliar with the site, GitHub is a prominent tech startup well-known among the IT world for its web based software management system. It  has a client base of over 125,000 programmers world-wide using GitHub to manage projects and share coding solutions.

Getting the job is a massive win for Anchor, considering they are on the other side of the world to not only the customer, but the physical infrastructure and the company that operates it.

The whole thing went swimmingly, as well, if word on the stweet is anything to go by.

Anchor Managing Director, Andrew Rogers, was obviously very pleased with their role in the project:

Getting the opportunity to design and manage the infrastructure behind what has been dubbed “facebook for programmers” has really been exciting.
It’s very cool that we can do this from down under; we’re doing some seriously fancy technical stuff for these guys to make this work, and implementing it entirely with open source software.

It also appears they have had tremendous support from within GitHub, with co-founder Tom Preston-Werner, saying

I trust the team at Anchor more than any other systems administrators I’ve ever worked with.

For those interested in the details of what Anchor did (it’s an interesting read if it’s your thing) you can find all the details on their blog.

Melbourne-based Flippa, the self-proclaimed, #1 marketplace for buying and selling websites, is going from strength to strength making it easier than ever for people to exit their businesses without having to wait for a knock on the door from Google or Yahoo.

Flippa is another site to come out of the super-successful SitePoint stable (Crowdsourced Design site 99 Designs is another).

Many of you will remember the SitePoint marketplace which was used to auction off Startup Camp projects – well Flippa spun out of that marketplace in June this year.

While most of their traffic originally came from SitePoint, Dave Slutzkin from Flippa tells me that after just a couple of months they’re down to less than 15% from “the mothership”, with the majority of traffic coming directly to the site.  Traffic growth is around 20% per month at the moment as well (Compete has them on about 180K UVs, though that could mean anything…)

It’s a good start for the team and one that they, no doubt, will hope positions them well to take on eBay, CraigsList and the other more niche sites competing in the area.