by Abhilash C R | Sep 13, 2015 | Server Management
“Google has listed your server as a malware source! Its been hacked into, and is being used to spread malware!” I’m sure this is a message that you never hope to get in your mailbox. But, how confident are you about your server security? One of the most...
by Blessen | Sep 11, 2015 | DDoS, Server Administration, VPN, WordPress
DDOS, or Distributed Denial of Service is an advanced version of DOS (Denial of Service) attack. Like DOS, DDOS also tries to deny important services running on a server by broadcasting packets to the destination server in a way that the Destination server cannot...
by Visakh S | Sep 9, 2015 | Docker
Docker runs on 13 major operating systems that include RHEL, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Arch Linux, and others. However, these operating systems are full-featured distributions, and are an over-kill for container based services. Docker containers only need a limited set of...
by Vishnu Ram V | Sep 8, 2015 | Apache, Litespeed, MySQL, Nginx, Server Administration, Server Management
Apache is an open-source HTTP server implementation. It is still the most popular web server on the Internet. The August 2015 Web Server Survey conducted by Netcraft [1] shows that about 37.51% of the web sites on Internet are using Apache. Through our web server...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Sep 6, 2015 | cPanel, Server Administration
A log file can grow without bounds if it is not managed well. Larger log files are relatively harder to manipulate and also increase in the size of log file can result in file systems to run out of space. Opening, closing and manipulating data for very large file size...
by Visakh S | Sep 4, 2015 | Docker, Server Management, WordPress
As we’ve seen in a previous post, WordPress multisite is a great way to deliver multi-tenant WordPress hosting. However, multisite doesn’t allow customers access to the WordPress back-end in case they want to make custom modifications. For WordPress...
by Visakh S | Sep 3, 2015 | Server Administration, WordPress
OK. So, I started off writing this post explaining why SSL is important and how Google considers HTTPS as a ranking signal, but then I realized no one really needs a pitch on why secure website access is important. So, let’s get right to the meat of the matter....
by admin | Sep 1, 2015 | Server Administration, Technical Support
As the old adage goes, it’s you should work ON your business, not IN it. If the time you spend maintaining your business is greater than time spent in marketing and innovation, it’s time for you to consider outsourcing. Customer service can be one of the...
by Visakh S | Aug 28, 2015 | Server Management, WordPress
Everyone loves a fast website. Even search engines such as Google say a site should respond within 200 milliseconds [1]. This means you should keep your site lightning fast not just to keep your customers happy, but to retain your SEO rankings. From image optimization...
by Visakh S | Aug 26, 2015 | Apache, Docker, Server Administration, Server Management
If you are an early adopter of Docker, chances are that you are running it on a popular distro like Red Hat, CentOS or Ubuntu. This was the case with a few web application systems we managed. We soon realized that the extra services that CentOS ran just ate up...
