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Tag: Performance

  • Preventing brute force WordPress login attacks

    Over the last month or two we have seen an increase in WordPress brute force login attacks. The symptom is typically higher CPU usage on your server (often resulting in slower page load times). It can be particularly painful on servers running php through fast CGI (like Plesk server setups). For a good summary of…

  • Identifying exploits and exploited websites

    I have made posts before regarding how to find exploits, and what to do about those previously, however it has come to my attention that some people are not even realizing what the basics are to look for. In this post i will give you ideas on what to look for, how to identify exploits…

  • Blocking malicious crawlers or scrapers in Apache

    Occasionally we see a customer who has a popular website that often gets people trying to crawl it and copy the lot, This has the unfortunate side effect that its hammering the site. Made worse only by dynamic pages and loops this can literally take down a server in some occasions. Often you can slow…

  • Installing Oracle RDBMS Server

    Oracle is a very popular database.  Particularly for enterprise customers running on dedicated servers with lots of CPU and fast RAID setups. This tutorial will guide you to install Oracle database server on CentOS Linux distro.  Hopefully the steps are simple enough that even a technically minded non-DBA can get the database installed. Oracle RDBMS…

  • SSD-backed VPS hosts

    We are happy to announce the immediate availability of SSD-backed VPS hosts. These servers run the VPS images on a RAID array of SSDs. The SSDs increase the disk IO throughput and decrease disk IO latency (particularly on ‘random access’ activities, like database inserts/queries). You can order a new VPS (just select the SSD option…

  • New drive options: bigger, faster Intel SSDs!

    Intel recently released their new generation of 330 series SSD drives.  These take over from the well regarded X25-M SSD drives.  But add more capacity.  Better performance.  And lower cost per GB! Our new Sandybridge dedicated servers come with SATA3 which helps maximize the 330 series drive performance.  Data sheets show that over SATA 3…

  • Intel Dual Sandybridge servers avilable

    We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of powerful new dual processor servers running Intel Sandybridge E5-2620 or E5-2630 CPUs. These impressive machines are built on the popular Supermicro platforms using the X9DR-f motherboard This new platform will enhance any large scale dedicated or virtualized deployments with access to 24 hyperthreaded cores and support…

  • Wordcamp New Zealand – Scaling Servers

     On the 22nd of April, I (Liz) was lucky enough to be able to speak on scaling WordPress and servers at the New Zealand WordCamp. The people there were great, and i ended up meeting and talking to many fascinating people about all sorts of code, servers, set ups among other things. I was a…

  • JBoss AS 7.1 install script

    JBoss Application Server (or JBoss AS) is an open-source Java EE-based application server. It has been optimized for multiples cores, it has a very fast startup time and a great low memory consumption. We have created a new version of the jboss install script. Jboss 7 changed a lot the way it is configured, that…

  • Account authorization and password resets

    The primary way we identify our customers is via the email addresses associated with your account. If you do not communicate with us using one of these listed accounts, it may delay or slow the work we do on your server until we can verify you are authorized to request work done on the server.…