by Visakh S | Jul 2, 2015 | Server Administration
For businesses that use SMS for business correspondence (eg., taking orders, getting instructions from customers, etc.), it is important to sync them with the official mail address. It allows easy sharing of client instructions, and facilitate faster service...
by Visakh S | Jun 23, 2015 | Server Administration, Technical Support
In our role as Outsourced Tech Support for web hosts, VPS customers hosted in OpenVZ or Virtuozzo servers often report their sites crashing with the error OOM killed process httpd. It often happens with high traffic websites or with sites hosted in starter plans....
by Visakh S | Jun 16, 2015 | MySQL, Server Administration
In VPS and dedicated servers, especially in those running high traffic websites, MySQL server sometimes fails to respond with the error [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Incorrect key file for table ‘/tmp/#XXXXX.MYI’; try to repair it. This often leads to a...
by Visakh S | Jun 11, 2015 | Server Administration
Customers understand, or try to accept a server downtime. They understand servers are machines, and do sometimes break, but the one thing that they really hate is a slow server. It keeps them chained to their computer, and wastes their productive time. For an average...
by Visakh S | Mar 30, 2015 | Server Administration
One of the common questions startups ask us is, “What technology should we use?” For startups, speed of development is key. Most startups work on a limited budget and within a small window of opportunity. For such situations, we recommend Django as the...
by Visakh S | Mar 24, 2015 | Server Administration
A tech startup got in touch with us recently to evaluate their technology options for a SaaS application. It had a predominant e-commerce component, and the startup needed an easily maintainable, secure frame work to build their application. After considering all...