by Visakh S | Jan 9, 2016 | Server Management
As a server management company, we are often consulted by online service providers for a variety of business decisions – which technology to use, what hardware to deploy, how to keep the system profitable, etc. Profitability of a hosting company or an IaaS...
by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 8, 2016 | ovirt, Server Management, WordPress
Virtualization refers to hosting a number of virtual server instances over a single physical machine. Dividing resources such as CPU, RAM, storage and I/O among multiple instances, helps in maximum hardware utilization. Statistics show that every business organization...
by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 6, 2016 | Server Administration
In IT systems, disaster can strike any moment and in any form. A hard disk failure, third party attack or even human errors can lead to data loss. To recover valuable data in such scenarios, backup management plays an inevitable role. But many times people just...
by Reeshma Mathews | Jan 5, 2016 | ovirt
It was Xmas time! Every website was flooding with offers and deals. I felt this was the best time to buy a tablet for myself. But many of these online stores had shipping times of 2 or more days. That’s when I came across Amazon website,...
by Visakh S | Jan 1, 2016 | ovirt
Recently, we setup an oVirt system for a cloud hosting provider. Much of the installation went through like a breeze, but we did face a few road blocks which were not covered in the oVirt docs or community. One such error is “Failed to attach Storage Domain []...
by Reeshma Mathews | Dec 30, 2015 | ovirt, Server Administration
In October, Amazon unveiled its new service called Prime Now. With this service, you get your orders delivered within 1 hour. So, if you are running out of wine for your new year celebration, take out your phone, place an order in Amazon, and your stocks get...
by Visakh S | Dec 24, 2015 | ovirt, Server Administration
It’s time for X’Mas shopping. Your mind is set on buying a swanky new hoverboard that your kid was raving about lately. You google for good deals, and find a few sites. You open the top 5 on different tabs, and start going through the features and price...
by Reeshma Mathews | Dec 23, 2015 | Docker, ovirt
In our previous post on configuring ‘Container as a Service’ in oVirt, we discussed how we deployed a scalable Docker infrastructure for application developers. Our first phase of implementation was focused on creating Docker containers within VMs. The...
by Visakh S | Dec 23, 2015 | ovirt
On Oct 10, Google Drive and Google Docs went down for 3 hours. Google services has been synonymous with high uptime, and a lot of people even used (and still use) Google.com to check if their laptop connection is up. So, predictably, the internet had a meltdown over...
by Visakh S | Dec 22, 2015 | ovirt, Technical Support
In 2008, when VPS hosting made its debut, a low end VPS was priced anywhere between $30/month – $50/month. At that time, the cheapest shared hosting plan cost $5/mo. Fast forward to 2015. Now the cheapest VPS is priced at $7/mo, while the cheapest shared hosting...
