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Category Archives: Tips
SoftLayer Network Tips
We’ve been a softlayer customer for a long time and we have quite a few machines with them at this point and we have people once in a while asking how in the world do we do what we do … Continue reading
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Software Load Balancing & VPS (Part 1, Perlbal)
This is just going to be a quick overview of some common methods of load balancing your web services via software load balancers. This post will have several parts, each covering different software load balancers. This particular part we will … Continue reading
The Few Cause Problems for the Majority
The one thing with web hosting no matter who your market is there are a few users who cause problems for the majority of the user base. That’s whether you’re selling 10000GB of space or 1GB of space there will … Continue reading
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Multivariate Testing
**WARNING** The formatting on this post is lackluster – once again who am I to fight against the ways of WordPress? Hopefully the point / useful information gets across. I haven’t checked the spelling in this post either – so … Continue reading
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RAID !== Backups
This is just a quick rant regarding people who insist on relying on RAID as their sole backup solution. Yes, RAID provides a certain amount of protection via redundancy, which may help save you from a drive failure, but does … Continue reading
Deadline Scheduler
Most modern Linux distributions have the default scheduler as CFG for all block devices but we’ve found for us and from our reading many other web hosts are finding this to not be the best scheduler. There are several schedulers … Continue reading
yum Frozen
We’ve had a few users report that yum is frozen on their VPS’s. Usually ones running cPanel and I figured it was worth a quick post about how to solve it. The problem is usually the rpm database has become … Continue reading
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Making the Most out of Suspended Accounts
Like every web host we have customers who do not cancel their hosting and simply do not pay. In some cases they just forget about their site altogether and as a result their users see a suspended page. For the … Continue reading
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Why Digital Point Hosts Fail
First of all the title was just to catch every ones attention it’s not strictly digital point based hosts, but for the most part they are the most guilty of doing what I am going to talk about. So it … Continue reading
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Improve cPanel Server I/O
One of the biggest issues with web servers is I/O due to the fact hard drives are the slowest component of computers. On standard Linux servers each time a file is accessed the OS writes to the drive the time … Continue reading
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