by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jun 29, 2010 | Server Administration
DNS is for the Internet, what oxygen is for life. Though we constantly use it, we are unaware of its presence. DNS has come a long way since Stanford Research Institute’s Network Information Center (SRI-NIC) maintained a file called hosts.txt which contained...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jun 28, 2010 | Server Administration
Talk about powerful processors and the names Opteron and Xeon jump to mind. These are the processors of choice of Datacenters around the world, with specifications that sound like they belong in a sci-fi movie. All that processing power comes at a cost though. Energy....
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jun 24, 2010 | Server Administration
Many hackers prefer to design and use their own tools to search for and attack vulnerable sites, but a majority of them use various exploitation “kits”. Some of the most common ones are Zeus, Neosploit, Eleonore and Justexploit. The developers of these...
by admin | Jun 23, 2010 | Server Administration
Consider ‘Cyberspace’ as a battleground where computers and networks are saved or compromised everyday. Until recently, the struggle had been more or less equal, but now a new and a more powerful weapon is in use – The Rootkit. Rootkit is the perfect...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jun 22, 2010 | Server Administration
We’ve spoken about Going Green, and the little things we can do to save our future. So as a Webhost, what else can you do? Well, for one thing, when shopping for servers, go for something Green. How will you know if the server you are looking at is...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jun 21, 2010 | Server Administration
Have you ever wondered as to where all your server memory is getting used up? Have you noticed growing web-server processes and wondered if the process is actually using up all the memory? Do you want to find how much memory is used exclusively by a process? The...
