Tag Archives: SysAdmin

Speeding up Heavy PHP Sites like Drupal/Joomla

Posted on April 10, 2012 by richard

Here’s a few tips and suggestions to lower the ave. memory usage and increase the efficiency of heavy PHP sites delivered via Apache on Linux VPS platforms. The aim here is to “appropriately scale” both the size of the Apache … Continue reading →

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New Web Delivery Engine online in Sydney

Posted on April 6, 2012 by richard

We’ve had the opportunity to re-provision some server hardware into a new physical configuration that provides maximum disk, CPU and RAM throughput at our main Sydney POP, exceeding what hardware vendors can deliver at any reasonable price-point from a single … Continue reading →

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Upgrading to PHP 5.3 on CentOS 5.x Linux

Posted on March 21, 2012 by richard

Some of the earlier CentOS/RHEL version 5.x Linux distributions came with older PHP versions (like 5.1 etc) and many newer PHP based open-source software distributions (eg: latest WordPress) require the better and newer versions of PHP like 5.3 or higher, … Continue reading →

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Firewalls for Customers on our VPS & Networks

Posted on March 21, 2012 by richard

Some customers would like Firewalls around their VPS or Colocation hosts and networks, we know, but they don’t know who to ask to get them setup or how to go about it, so we’ve created a few simple Plans for … Continue reading →

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Creating a SSL Key & CSR

Posted on March 19, 2012 by richard

All done with a single command and then working through the interactive prompts and no password is mandatory, so you can just press the ‘enter’ key at the Key Password prompts.. openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout SERVERNAME.key -out … Continue reading →

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Building up our 24×7 NOC

Posted on March 8, 2012 by richard

We’re growing our services and capabilities all the time & along with continuing to look for someone to work with us on sales & marketing, we’re also progressing our “24 x 7 NOC”, being technically capable people available by phone … Continue reading →

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All our VPS Plans include..

Posted on February 20, 2012 by richard

All of our VPS Plans, whether the cheapest sub $10 / month plan, or our premium Appliance & Managed Plans, all include the following services and capabilities, available online or via quick email, sms or call. – IPv6 subnets (/120) … Continue reading →

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Optimised the WordPress Appliance VPS

Posted on February 12, 2012 by richard

We run quite a few of these ‘Managed WordPress VPS‘ for customers, where they have an ‘Internet Appliance’ in the form of a supported WordPress CMS for their website, on their own customised VPS that we provide the SysAdmin and … Continue reading →

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Free MariaDB Upgrades on customer VPS

Posted on January 29, 2012 by richard

As I’ve mentioned, I found the FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) Weekly podcast from December 2011 about ‘MySQL and MariaDB’ very interesting. We’ve been using MariaDB internally and for some customers for over a year now and if any … Continue reading →

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We’ve got your Australasian Big Data Cloud right here

Posted on January 10, 2012 by richard

In 2011 I read through (a few times), the following books broadly related to “Big Data”: Hadoop: The Definitive Guide Cassandra: The Definitive Guide CouchDB: The Definitive Guide Professional Apache Tomcat 6 HTML5: Up and Running But not only have … Continue reading →

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