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I found out that the /scripts/installruby is actually out of date on [...]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 [...]
This afternoon we were forced to make an early upgrade on one of our servers to Apache 2.2.6 with the suPHP setup due to memory leak issues relating to Apache 1.3.3.9 and PHP 4.4.7 DSO.
We’ve been testing this setup on several servers that were one time production and contained some web sites on them still. [...]