by admin | Aug 3, 2010 | Server Administration
Bobcares introduces new “Combo” plans for the month of August. After the success of last month’s Combo plans, Bobcares has introduced a new set of Combos. Starting at just $99/month, all Combos are available at a 10% discount till August 31st. To...
by admin | Aug 1, 2010 | Server Administration
Life is never complete without friends. That’s a reason good enough to have a day dedicated to friendship. Spare a day to have fun and share good old memories with your pals. A coffee with a good old friend is moment of joy for many. One who cherishes such a...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jul 30, 2010 | Server Administration, Server Management
Cloud is probably the most significant advancement that affected the world of computing in a big way. Even though the theory was old, the resurgence of the idea has led to benefits such as consolidation of infrastructure, lower costs, greater security(arguable), ease...
by admin | Jul 30, 2010 | Server Administration
As a Webhost, I’m sure you’ll know more than your share of System Administrators, so take a moment today to thank them or maybe even send them a gift(wink wink)…cause today is “System Administrator Appreciation Day”. Its held on the last...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jul 28, 2010 | Server Administration, Server Management
Ok. Last week we talked about the advantages/disadvantages of becoming a Reseller. Now lets look at another option: Going for a VPS. Why go for a VPS? A VPS, or Virtual Private Server, is as its name suggests a “virtual” server. Through a process known as...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jul 27, 2010 | Apache, Nginx, Server Administration
Some of you might have experienced slow response times from your server, which cause the website to take a long time to load. In cPanel servers, Apache is the default webserver used, both for static and dynamic pages. Now let me tell you how you can speed things up...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jul 24, 2010 | Server Administration, Server Management
A few days after Microsoft announced their Azure Platform Appliance, a new Cloud OS entered the scene – OpenStack. While most Cloud OSes out there are proprietary, OpenStack is an open source cloud OS(Its being provided under the Apache 2.0 license) that is...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jul 18, 2010 | Server Administration, Server Management
If your planning on getting into the Webhosting industry in a small way, this is something your going to be asking yourself. You could start off by setting up individual shared hosting accounts for each of the sites you plan to host, but handling 100 individual...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jul 15, 2010 | Server Administration
In the previous blog, we discussed various DNS vulnerabilities such as Cache Poisoning, Client Flooding, Information Disclosure attacks, Vulnerability in sharing a nameserver and DDos in DNS. DNSSEC provides answers to all except DDoS attacks. DNSSEC is not the...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jul 14, 2010 | Server Administration
Windows Azure was in the news again when Microsoft announced the “Windows Azure Platform Appliance” at their Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) on July 12th. It consists of pre-configured containers that hold between a hundred and a thousand servers...
