by Robert Broyles | May 17, 2011 | Server Administration, Server Management
You call tech support and you are put on hold, listening to awful hold music for what seems like forever. When you finally get connected to an agent, you are asked unrelated questions, and instructed to go to a web form and submit a ticket. Or worse, you only got an...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 14, 2011 | DDoS, Server Administration
Last post on Identification of DDoS attack did not cover analysis of the attack, in cases wherein bandwidth graph’s and connection status aren’t conclusive. In such a scenario, the best means is to inspect the packets coming into the server, and this can be done by...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 11, 2011 | Server Administration
Using Facebook all the time nowadays? Have you ever wondered how this user friendly yet innovative site has been made ? Do they use Java, C++ or Python for coding purpose? The answer is – “Thrift”, now called “Apache Thrift”. From its...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 7, 2011 | DDoS, Server Administration
If you are a hosting provider, chances are that you’ve experienced a DoS/DDoS attack against a domain or a server. If so, you already know how frustrating it can be to tackle such an attack. For those who are yet to feel the heat of it, its better to be prepared to...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | May 4, 2011 | Server Administration
Well, its finally happening, the world is starting to run out of IPv4 addresses. ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers) and IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) announced in February that the last of the world’s remaining IPv4 blocks had...
by admin | May 2, 2011 | Server Administration
Bobcares introduces its Software Development services, based on two of their most popular delivery models. The development services of Bobcares can now be adopted easily for all your development needs. The “dedicated developer” and the “pay per project” model takes...