by Visakh S | Feb 7, 2015 | Server Administration
GHOST vulnerability of Glibc was disclosed on 27th Jan. As with any breaking news about vulnerabilities, the initial reports were muddled about the severity of impact, and the extend of exploits running in the wild. Bobcares Dedicated Linux Systems Administrators...
by Visakh S | Feb 7, 2015 | Magento, Server Administration
In our previous post we covered how our Linux Systems Administrators shed 5 seconds off in website load time for a Magento e-commerce website. Here we’ll continue the discussion on how server side optimization further reduced it to a 2 second loading website....
by Visakh S | Feb 7, 2015 | Magento, Server Administration
The call came through our emergency support channel. A Magento e-commerce website was seeing an increase in bounce rates (87%) and a dip in conversion rates. Analytics tools correlated the increased bounce rates with high page load times. A preliminary analysis showed...
by Visakh S | Jan 28, 2015 | Server Administration
It is unwelcome, it is tedious, but it is inevitable. Every service provider dreads a hard disk crash, and the downtime it can lead to, but it is one eventuality that will happen sooner or later. Today was one such day. A high priority alert notified our Dedicated...
by Visakh S | Jan 27, 2015 | Server Administration
Reports are coming in from our Dedicated Linux Systems Administrators about an evolving threat, disclosed earlier today. A heap buffer overflow vulnerability in GNU C Library (glibc), allows remote or local actors to execute arbitrary code under the privilege of user...
by Visakh S | Jan 23, 2015 | Server Administration
It was a peaceful night shift at a data center we managed. Just a few routine server provisioning and customer queries were keeping us occupied. Suddenly all alarm bells started ringing. 25+ managed server instances had gone offline, and the alert priority was among...
