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 be covering Perlbal.
In this post I’ll be using two different VPS accounts as an example [...]
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 be users who do things that are not advised. We at Hawk Host deal with [...]
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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 don’t kill me if you find a typo.
I’ve recently been fiddling around with multivariate testing on [...]
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 [...]