by Lakshmi Vijayakumar | Feb 4, 2019 | Server Administration, Vultr
I accidentally created a Vultr instance with CentOS, but I want to change the OS. Can you change it to Ubuntu? That was a recent support ticket received at our Server Management Services department where we manage customer’s servers. Server owners often request...
by Sijin George | Feb 4, 2019 | Server Management
Every application consumes server resources. At times, buggy applications create resource crunch on the server and result in memory errors. One such error is “mmap failed cannot allocate memory”. This error primarily happens due to memory shortage....
by Lakshmi Vijayakumar | Feb 3, 2019 | Server Administration
Everyone expects their emails to work perfectly, but that doesn’t always work. Sometimes, emails bounce with strange errors. And, one such error is “user unknown in virtual mailbox table” in Postfix servers. What’s this virtual mailbox table?...
by Lakshmi Vijayakumar | Feb 2, 2019 | Vultr
Enabling private IP address is one of the good strategies to secure your Vultr instances. But, setting up private networks on your Vultr Cloud Compute is not so easy. We need to manually configure the IP address on the network interface. Also, handling network...
by Sijin George | Feb 2, 2019 | cPanel, Server Administration
My client wants to host Django application on the shared hosting server. Can you setup python app on cPanel so that I can host the website? That was a recent customer request received in our Server Administration Services for Web Hosting providers. Enabling Python...
by Lakshmi Vijayakumar | Feb 1, 2019 | Server Administration, Vultr
At times, you should come across the need to clone your Vultr server. It can be to create a pre-release environment, perform stress tests, scaling purpose, change server location, and more. Unfortunately, there is no one click option to clone your Vultr server. It...
by Sijin George | Feb 1, 2019 | Redis, Server Administration
Caching or storing frequently accessed data in memory is one of the proven ways to improve site speed. But, does Laravel website support caching? Yes. Installing Redis cache on Laravel really helps to speed up your web app. But, this involves configuration changes...
by Lakshmi Vijayakumar | Jan 31, 2019 | FTP, Technical Support
FTP errors are difficult to decode especially when it show strange error codes. One such error in SFTP is “connection error 10060” . At Bobcares, we help website owners resolve such strange FTP errors as part of our Server Management Services. Today,...
by Sijin George | Jan 31, 2019 | Docker, Linode
Linode allows you to install multiple applications on the same server. But at times, there can be a requirement to isolate certain apps due to security reasons. That’s where Docker helps. Docker is a tool that allows to create and deploy packages needed to run...
by Lakshmi Vijayakumar | Jan 30, 2019 | MySQL, Server Management
MySQL errors can sometimes be clueless. Especially, when there are no pointers to the reason in the error message. One such error is “MySQL service detected with wrong path”. Server owners properly configure MySQL service on the server, but still receive a...
