by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Apr 21, 2011 | Server Administration
Ever seen the error “ip_conntrack Table full. Dropping packet” in the log file /var/log/messages? You are likely to see it busy servers, or if your server is under some kind of a DDoS attack. But then how and why do these connection tracking happen. As the...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Apr 14, 2011 | Server Administration
Last week Intel announced a new family of family processors, aimed at accelerating mission-critical computing. The new processor family contains 18 new processors for two-, four- and eight-socket servers, and is expandable to servers with 256 sockets. The...
by admin | Mar 31, 2011 | Server Administration
As we all know, server migration is the process of moving websites hosted on legacy systems to more robust and feature-rich systems. In most cases both the source and destination servers are installed with some control panels and many of these control panels provide...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Mar 24, 2011 | Server Administration
Trustwave, a leading provider of on-demand data security and payment card industry compliance management solutions to businesses and organizations, released its “Global Security Report 2011” last week. The report includes Trustwave’s findings after...
by admin | Mar 22, 2011 | Server Administration
Tobby and Benjamin set up the Bobcares stand No. 54 at WebHostingDays 2011. The four-day conference and trade fair, takes place in Germany from March 22nd – 25th About Bobcares: Bobcares is an ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 27001:2005 certified company that specializes in...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Mar 18, 2011 | Server Administration
Attending hosting conferences, has become part of almost all big shots in the hosting industry. But what can a smaller player expect from such a conference? Why should a small or medium sized web-host visit or participate in such conferences? A common answer to that...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Mar 14, 2011 | Magento, Server Administration, Server Management
WHD is the world’s largest hosting event. It provides an ideal venue for exchanging experiences and for networking amongst players in the hosting industry. WorldHostingDays 2011 serves as a venue for news and information from the hosting world, for the hosting...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Mar 4, 2011 | cPanel, Server Administration
Of the various support requests I have received recently, a few have been from customers wanting to upgrade OpenSSL on a cPanel server. The reason being the latest PCI compliance tests are reporting a vulnerability in the version of OpenSSL installed on their server....
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Feb 25, 2011 | Server Administration
Kohana is the PHP5 framework started as a fork of Codeigniter. When Codeigniter first appeared, it delighted the developers with its elegant user guide and simple and straightforward usage patterns. Codeigniter has only one limitation – that it doesn’t...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Feb 19, 2011 | Server Administration
M86 Security Labs released their Threat Predictions for 2011 report recently. It makes for a short and interesting read. Their No.1 threat is quite scary. They predict that cybercriminals will be releasing malware that uses stolen digital certificates. A lot of...
