by Visakh S | Sep 19, 2018 | Apache, Server Administration
Apache’s CGI mode allows webmaster’s to reduce memory usage. It is the preferred way to run many low traffic websites. But the CGI mode is pretty sensitive to things such as permissions and file encoding, that leads to 500 Internal Server Error. In our...
by Visakh S | Sep 18, 2018 | Server Management
To run a website, you need several services such as web server, database server, mail server and more. These services need to communicate with each other to make web apps work. But in AWS, this communication can break due to default security settings. Why...
by Visakh S | Sep 17, 2018 | Drupal, Server Management
Is your Drupal site showing “500 Internal Server Error” all of a sudden? In our role as Support Engineers for web hosts, this is a common error we see in Drual websites. We’ve seen this happen during: Drupal core update, Module or Theme update,...
by Visakh S | Sep 14, 2018 | Server Management
“DKIM-Result: fail (bad signature)” is an error reported by www.appmaildev.com – a DKIM validation website. It means that the mail sender’s domain (say sender.com) failed an anti-spam test called DKIM, that is used to block fake or altered...
by Visakh S | Sep 13, 2018 | Server Management
Maintaining a Dedicated Server can be a chore. You need to apply security patches, verify backups, upgrade apps, and more – just to keep the server running without fail. Even despite all this, things can still break. Server owners often face blacklisted IPs,...
by Veena Venugopal | Sep 12, 2018 | Server Administration
Almost every PHP application relies on mail functions to send contact requests, newsletters, and more. The most secure way to send these mails is to use SMTP authentication – that is, the PHP app uses a username and password to transfer mails to an SMTP server....
by Reeshma Mathews | Sep 11, 2018 | Server Management
Google hates websites that takes over 200 ms to load. The end result? A huge drop in your page rank and visitors abandoning your websites. How to speed up your website? If you notice website slowness, act quickly before Google acts. Here’s our tried-and-tested...
by Visakh S | Sep 10, 2018 | Server Administration
Managing a website can be hard. To keep your site business ready, you need to routinely optimize the databases, replace bulky plugins, renew SSL certificates, upgrade software, optimize pages for SEO, and more. That’s quite a lot of work, considering you still...
by Visakh S | Sep 8, 2018 | Server Administration
Here at Bobcares.com, we provide Outsourced Tech Support to web hosting providers. As part of our service, we resolve website errors posted by hosting users. A common error we’ve seen in PHP applications is: Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to...
by Visakh S | Sep 7, 2018 | Server Management
Google blacklists up to 6,000 websites EVERY DAY for serving malware. Almost all of these sites are classified as “compromised sites”, which means it was infected with malware without the knowledge of the site owner. A malware infection could lead to loss...
