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...
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...
