by Visakh S | Feb 7, 2015 | Magento, Server Administration
In our previous post we covered how our Linux Systems Administrators shed 5 seconds off in website load time for a Magento e-commerce website. Here we’ll continue the discussion on how server side optimization further reduced it to a 2 second loading website....
by Visakh S | Feb 7, 2015 | Magento, Server Administration
The call came through our emergency support channel. A Magento e-commerce website was seeing an increase in bounce rates (87%) and a dip in conversion rates. Analytics tools correlated the increased bounce rates with high page load times. A preliminary analysis showed...
by Visakh S | Jan 29, 2015 | Technical Support
The data was conclusive. The servers orion-47, orion-50 and orion-52 needed RAM upgrades. In the past one month their RAM usage has mostly been above 85% and was showing an increasing trend. Swap usage has grown by more than 20% and it was resulting in higher I/O wait...
by Visakh S | Jan 28, 2015 | Server Administration
It is unwelcome, it is tedious, but it is inevitable. Every service provider dreads a hard disk crash, and the downtime it can lead to, but it is one eventuality that will happen sooner or later. Today was one such day. A high priority alert notified our Dedicated...
by Visakh S | Jan 27, 2015 | Server Administration
Reports are coming in from our Dedicated Linux Systems Administrators about an evolving threat, disclosed earlier today. A heap buffer overflow vulnerability in GNU C Library (glibc), allows remote or local actors to execute arbitrary code under the privilege of user...
