by Reeshma Mathews | Feb 2, 2016 | Server Management, Technical Support
In 2010, Virgin Blue Airlines reported a $20 million dip in profit due to an outage in its online reservation system. Hardware failure was identified as the reason for the outage, but it caused severe damage to Virgin Blue’s reputation, customer loyalty and...
by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 29, 2016 | Server Administration
I like instant coffee. Why? Because its “instant”! No waiting around. Fast feels good, especially when it comes to using services such as telephone services, web hosting, etc. For instance, in VPS hosting, customers now expect their accounts to be...
by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 25, 2016 | Server Administration
“Noisy neighbors” are customers who use up more than their fair share of resources in a virtualized server. Such over-use of resources (aka resource hogging) affects server performance, especially if a VPS provider runs high-density servers. Though server...
by Visakh S | Jan 23, 2016 | Nginx, Server Management
On 24th Sep, 2015, ARIN (IP registry for North America) announced that there were no more free IPv4 addresses. It meant that the already scarce IPv4 addresses became even more difficult to obtain. This prompted many web hosts and website developers to look at...
by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 22, 2016 | Server Administration
In the online world, data loss can happen due to many reasons. Human errors, hardware issues or even natural calamities can end up causing a business downtime. Maintaining server backups is a preventive measure to minimize the business downtime due to such mishaps....
by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 18, 2016 | ovirt
Life is full of surprises. Some are unpleasant, like a server crash. Disk failures, human errors, external attack or natural calamities often lead to business downtime. For businesses hosted on dedicated servers, recovering from a crash is tedious, as it...
by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 15, 2016 | Server Management
Even the best software application that works seamlessly in the development server, may go haywire in the live server, due to version mismatch or compatibility issues with the server software. To facilitate smooth completion of a software project, its development and...
by Visakh S | Jan 15, 2016 | ovirt, Server Management
$700 for a 64 GB iPhone 6s? Seemed too good to be true, but that’s what the mail in my inbox said. It didn’t look spammy, so, I clicked on the link, and went to the gadget website. Everything looked legitimate with good user reviews. Great! So, I clicked...
by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 13, 2016 | Server Administration
When Netflix faced an outage in 2011, they had to offer a 3% credit to their customers. The outage was due to a resource crunch in the Amazon cloud they were hosted in. It’s tough for a business to survive if such outages happen frequently. A cloud hosting...
by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 12, 2016 | ovirt, Server Administration, Technical Support, VMware, WordPress, WordPress Hosting
Surveys indicate that 70% of online businesses adopt server virtualization solutions to reduce their costs [1]. But many times, the virtualization software costs outweigh this cost-benefit. That is where open source server virtualization technologies make a...
