by Visakh S | Mar 16, 2016 | Server Administration
MySQL is by far the most popular database used for web applications. It is a very easy database to use, but it doesn’t have the best uptime record. Many database issues such as corrupted tables, resource limits, or replication errors often lead to website...
by Visakh S | Mar 14, 2016 | HAProxy, Server Administration
In any web server infrastructure, database servers are often the slowest. This is because databases fetch data from good ol’ hard disks instead of the super fast server memory. High speed storage such as RAID and SSDs have been able to reduce the latency, but if a...
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...
