by Visakh S | Aug 28, 2015 | Server Management, WordPress
Everyone loves a fast website. Even search engines such as Google say a site should respond within 200 milliseconds [1]. This means you should keep your site lightning fast not just to keep your customers happy, but to retain your SEO rankings. From image optimization...
by Visakh S | Aug 26, 2015 | Apache, Docker, Server Administration, Server Management
If you are an early adopter of Docker, chances are that you are running it on a popular distro like Red Hat, CentOS or Ubuntu. This was the case with a few web application systems we managed. We soon realized that the extra services that CentOS ran just ate up...
by Visakh S | Aug 24, 2015 | Docker, Server Management, Technical Support
1. Docker installed – Check. 2. Get image – Check. 3. Deploy container – Check. With Docker, deployment is as easy as that. Sysadmins and developers have moved away from the VPS days, and have settled into the easy lives of getting deployments done...
by Visakh S | Jul 31, 2015 | cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, Server Management
On 28th July Internet Systems Consortium announced a critical vulnerability (CVE-2015-5477) in all BIND DNS server versions from 9.1.0 to 9.9.7-P1 and 9.10.2-P2. It allows a remote attacker to exploit an error in handling TKEY queries to launch a Denial of Service...
by Visakh S | Jul 24, 2015 | Server Management
Qualys reported on 23rd July an important root privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2015-3246), and DoS attack vulnerability (CVE-2015-3245) for Linux servers using RedHat’s libuser package. Here’s how you can protect your CentOS and RedHat server from...
by Visakh S | Jun 30, 2015 | MySQL, Server Management
Server crashes could leave databases in inconsistent states. While there are many tools available to repair MYISAM tables in MySQL, InnoDB repair is not always so straightforward. MySQL could refuse to start up, leaving you with in-determinate downtime. If your MySQL...
