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Apache Thrift

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 home page: Thrift is a software...

Mitigating DDoS – Part I

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...

The World is running out of IPv4 addresses

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...

Software Services @Bobcares

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...

Amazon EC2’s outage: what have we learned?

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 to wonder if they...

Disaster Recovery with R1soft

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,...