by Reeshma Mathews | Nov 25, 2016 | Server Administration, Server Management, Technical Support
WHMCS is a commonly used ‘client, billing and support’ portal for businesses. To protect the confidentiality of data stored in it, this software has many security features. IP ban is such a security feature in WHMCS to prevent unauthorized access to the...
by Reeshma Mathews | Nov 19, 2016 | Server Management, Technical Support
In Joomla, while accessing the ‘Extension Manager’ feature in Admin panel, a commonly noticed warning is ‘PHP temporary directory is not set’. Extension Manager is used to manage the Joomla extensions via the Admin panel and any warnings in the...
by Reeshma Mathews | Nov 5, 2016 | Magento, Server Administration, Server Management, Technical Support
Are you a website owner? Do you have Magento shopping cart in your site? Is your server running an insecure version of Linux kernel? If the answers to these questions are ‘yes’, then you’d be noticing a ‘Dirty COW vulnerability’ alert in...
by Reeshma Mathews | Nov 4, 2016 | MySQL, Server Administration, Server Management, Technical Support
MySQL database server is widely used by online businesses to store their critical and valuable data. MariaDB and Percona are other database servers based on MySQL. But the confidentiality and security of these database servers goes for a toss when one fine morning a...
by Reeshma Mathews | Nov 3, 2016 | Docker, Server Management
In a Docker infrastructure, monitoring the containers is vital to ensure that a single container do not end up abusing the host machine and crash other containers. Docker container monitoring involves keeping an eye on the metrics such as available CPU, mem, blkio,...
by Reeshma Mathews | Nov 1, 2016 | Server Management, Technical Support, WordPress
On December 2015, the much-awaited PHP 7 was released. With its new version of the Zend Engine, PHP 7.0 proved to be two times faster than PHP 5.6. In PHP 7, code execution became faster and it requires only less number of servers to handle the same website traffic....
by Reeshma Mathews | Oct 28, 2016 | Docker
While most DevOps engineers prefer managing their Docker container infrastructure from the command line, some users prefer to have a Docker web UI. There are many open source Docker web UI available, suited for different purposes that range from basic container...
by Reeshma Mathews | Oct 26, 2016 | Docker, Server Management
Docker performance can be affected by a single container that abuses the CPU or memory, which can eventually end up crashing other containers or the entire machine. Most hosting providers implement QoS (Quality of Service) to improve Docker performance. This...
by Reeshma Mathews | Oct 25, 2016 | Docker
Disasters cannot be predicted or prevented, but you can always quickly bounce back from them if you maintain adequate backup plans for your business. That makes data backups indispensable for any online business. By reducing the time to restore a crashed business,...
by Reeshma Mathews | Oct 22, 2016 | Server Management
Dirty COW vulnerability was first discovered a decade ago and has been present in Linux kernel versions from 2.6.22, which was released in 2007. But the vulnerability gained attention only recently when hackers started exploiting it. This has led to the release of...
