by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 29, 2016 | Server Administration
I like instant coffee. Why? Because its “instant”! No waiting around. Fast feels good, especially when it comes to using services such as telephone services, web hosting, etc. For instance, in VPS hosting, customers now expect their accounts to be...
by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 25, 2016 | Server Administration
“Noisy neighbors” are customers who use up more than their fair share of resources in a virtualized server. Such over-use of resources (aka resource hogging) affects server performance, especially if a VPS provider runs high-density servers. Though server...
by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 22, 2016 | Server Administration
In the online world, data loss can happen due to many reasons. Human errors, hardware issues or even natural calamities can end up causing a business downtime. Maintaining server backups is a preventive measure to minimize the business downtime due to such mishaps....
by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 13, 2016 | Server Administration
When Netflix faced an outage in 2011, they had to offer a 3% credit to their customers. The outage was due to a resource crunch in the Amazon cloud they were hosted in. It’s tough for a business to survive if such outages happen frequently. A cloud hosting...
by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 12, 2016 | ovirt, Server Administration, Technical Support, VMware, WordPress, WordPress Hosting
Surveys indicate that 70% of online businesses adopt server virtualization solutions to reduce their costs [1]. But many times, the virtualization software costs outweigh this cost-benefit. That is where open source server virtualization technologies make a...
by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 6, 2016 | Server Administration
In IT systems, disaster can strike any moment and in any form. A hard disk failure, third party attack or even human errors can lead to data loss. To recover valuable data in such scenarios, backup management plays an inevitable role. But many times people just...
