by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Apr 30, 2011 | Server Administration
Many start-up hosting companies may have fallen into the “Cloud” bandwagon, believing that it is the answer to the availability problems faced by standard hosting companies. However, last weeks Amazon EC2’s outage has caused a lot of those start-ups...
by admin | Apr 25, 2011 | Server Administration
One of the major challenges we face in the web hosting industry is to plan for a disaster recovery. A very important element is taking backup of servers regularly and managing them effectively. There are several backup solutions which takes the backup regularly,...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Apr 21, 2011 | Server Administration
Ever seen the error “ip_conntrack Table full. Dropping packet” in the log file /var/log/messages? You are likely to see it busy servers, or if your server is under some kind of a DDoS attack. But then how and why do these connection tracking happen. As the...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Apr 14, 2011 | Server Administration
Last week Intel announced a new family of family processors, aimed at accelerating mission-critical computing. The new processor family contains 18 new processors for two-, four- and eight-socket servers, and is expandable to servers with 256 sockets. The...
by admin | Mar 31, 2011 | Server Administration
As we all know, server migration is the process of moving websites hosted on legacy systems to more robust and feature-rich systems. In most cases both the source and destination servers are installed with some control panels and many of these control panels provide...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Mar 24, 2011 | Server Administration
Trustwave, a leading provider of on-demand data security and payment card industry compliance management solutions to businesses and organizations, released its “Global Security Report 2011” last week. The report includes Trustwave’s findings after...
