by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Apr 30, 2011 | Server Administration
Many start-up hosting companies may have fallen into the “Cloud” bandwagon, believing that it is the answer to the availability problems faced by standard hosting companies. However, last weeks Amazon EC2’s outage has caused a lot of those start-ups...
by admin | Apr 25, 2011 | Server Administration
One of the major challenges we face in the web hosting industry is to plan for a disaster recovery. A very important element is taking backup of servers regularly and managing them effectively. There are several backup solutions which takes the backup regularly,...
by admin | Apr 24, 2011 | Server Management
Sometimes our network service won’t behave as per our requirement and in most of the cases the log do not help us to trace out the issue. Here comes the role of tcpdump and wireshark utility. tcpdump is a packet sniffer. It captures the packets that fly in and...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Apr 21, 2011 | Server Administration
Ever seen the error “ip_conntrack Table full. Dropping packet” in the log file /var/log/messages? You are likely to see it busy servers, or if your server is under some kind of a DDoS attack. But then how and why do these connection tracking happen. As the...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Apr 14, 2011 | Server Administration
Last week Intel announced a new family of family processors, aimed at accelerating mission-critical computing. The new processor family contains 18 new processors for two-, four- and eight-socket servers, and is expandable to servers with 256 sockets. The...
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