by Visakh S | May 4, 2016 | Apache, Nginx, Server Management
Early today (3rd May 2016), OpenSSL released patches for two high severity bugs, and 4 low severity ones. The first bug, CVE-2016-2108 is a Memory corruption vulnerability, which could allow an attacker to crash a service or even execute malicious code. The second...
by Visakh S | Apr 23, 2016 | Technical Support
Isn’t it a great feeling when you see new sales orders coming in, after you’ve spent countless hours and dollars on marketing? It’d be awesome if you can convert all of those orders into your actual customers. However, many web hosts are forced to...
by Visakh S | Apr 13, 2016 | Server Administration
Containers are taking over the world. From VPSs to application hosting, more and more companies now use container technologies such as Docker, LXC and OpenVZ. The latest entrant to this list is rkt, pronounced as rocket. What is Rocket (rkt)? rkt is a container system...
by Visakh S | Apr 10, 2016 | Server Administration
Setting up a server can be time consuming. It involves installing an operating system, setting up networking, configuring various services and securing can take up to 2 hours per server. But what if you can deploy servers in a few mins? That’s what you can do...
by Visakh S | Apr 7, 2016 | MySQL, Server Management, WordPress
As they say, first impressions matter. Your next high value customer could be browsing your site right now. What if your site fails to load? This scenario is not far from the truth for many websites, and very often it’s the database that fails. Our Support...
by Visakh S | Apr 1, 2016 | MySQL, Server Administration
Percona is a high performance alternative for MySQL. It uses a modified InnoDB engine called XtraDB, and uses Galera’s clustering technology to offer better performance and uptime than MySQL. Today, let’s take a look at how you can setup a Percona cluster,...
by Visakh S | Mar 30, 2016 | MySQL, Server Management
MySQL is the most popular database used in web applications. It is supported by all hosting providers, is easy to administer, and free. However, MySQL servers often face high server load due to high disk IOWait. Is it really high IOWait? MySQL load can be due to high...
by Visakh S | Mar 30, 2016 | Server Administration
In an earlier post, we discussed how Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) can be used to achieve database high availability. PXC uses master-master replication, which makes each server in the cluster capable of making changes to the database. In such a system, data update...
by Visakh S | Mar 29, 2016 | Server Administration
A properly configured backup helps you bounce back from a server failure within minutes. However, backups impose a performance penalty and it is known to even bring down servers due to high load. So, backups should be setup such that it uses as little resources as...
by Visakh S | Mar 25, 2016 | MySQL, Server Management
MySQL is the most popular database used in web applications. It is supported by all hosting providers, is easy to administer, and free. However, MySQL servers often face high server load due to high memory usage. What causes MySQL high memory usage? Before we discuss...
