by admin | Jan 17, 2006 | Server Administration
Many hosts advertise 99.99% uptime or anything above 99.9%. Is 99.9% any different from 99.99%. Does it make a difference to anyone. The difference is only 0.09%, for crying out loud!! Well, there is a difference. A 99.99% uptime means 54.84 minutes of downtime a...
by admin | Jan 11, 2006 | cPanel, Server Administration
The whole process of securing a Server or network is quite extensive. I’m discussing just one major aspect of Security here – Firewalls. Specifically my topic is about APF firewall. I’m dividing this article into 2 sections :- The first section is...
by admin | Jan 3, 2006 | Server Administration
Load, in computing, is a measure of the amount of processing a computer system is currently performing, usually in the form of a scalar and as some variation on a percentage. – Wikipedia definition. In a *nix variant, Server load can be calculated by the uptime,...
by admin | Dec 27, 2005 | Server Administration
Since my College days, when I was introduced to Unixes, I love to have my own compiled kernel. It gave me that special feeling of “my machine is better than yours”. Besides, a custom kernel serves as an interesting conversation topic with geeks. Just ask...
by bobadmin | Dec 24, 2002 | Server Administration, WordPress
Every webmaster in this world wants their sites to load fast, and never go down. But, many get dissuaded by seeing the high costs for enterprise grade high availability solutions or cloud hosting costs. Well, what if you don’t have to spend a fortune to achieve...