by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 14, 2011 | DDoS, Server Administration
Last post on Identification of DDoS attack did not cover analysis of the attack, in cases wherein bandwidth graph’s and connection status aren’t conclusive. In such a scenario, the best means is to inspect the packets coming into the server, and this can be done by...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 11, 2011 | Server Administration
Using Facebook all the time nowadays? Have you ever wondered how this user friendly yet innovative site has been made ? Do they use Java, C++ or Python for coding purpose? The answer is – “Thrift”, now called “Apache Thrift”. From its...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 7, 2011 | DDoS, Server Administration
If you are a hosting provider, chances are that you’ve experienced a DoS/DDoS attack against a domain or a server. If so, you already know how frustrating it can be to tackle such an attack. For those who are yet to feel the heat of it, its better to be prepared to...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 4, 2011 | Server Administration
Well, its finally happening, the world is starting to run out of IPv4 addresses. ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers) and IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) announced in February that the last of the world’s remaining IPv4 blocks had...
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...
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