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 not constitute a backup solution. Usually the RAID setup you have isn’t fool proof – it [...]

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 available which you can read about here: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/008jun05/features/schedulers/ .  The one we’re using now and [...]

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 corrupt.  It’s quite easy to fix all you need to do is run a few [...]

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 longest time we just left up a generic cPanel suspension page for our shared hosting [...]

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 does in fact happen on other forums such as http://www.webhostingtalk.com/  but I would say at [...]

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 it was accessed. This sort of thing may come in handy in the [...]

We recently installed Ruby on Rails on some other servers and double checked some of the old servers to find something very troubling.  Ruby on Rails was not actually functioning on the servers anymore and on the new machines it never worked at all!
I found out that the /scripts/installruby is actually out of date on [...]

cPanel recently made the switch to a new Apache system which improved the maintainability of the system easier however did increase the overhead quite significantly. As a result restarting say apache when you add a domain can take quite a while long enough that it may be noticeable. We were noticing this with [...]

We have customers from time to time be real resource hogs. We’ve found two common types of users using all the resources
Old Customers

New scripts / features installed
The common issue here is users simply not researching the scripts before installing them. A good first step is to check out the scripts forums for users [...]

After my last post about Ruby on Rails we’ve gotten a view inquiries about exactly how you install Ruby on Rails through cPanel these days. So I figured a quick post with the steps required to run through the install would be great for those still running without Ruby on Rails on their cPanel [...]