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DNS traffic is a critical component of most network connections. While it is technically possible to operate on the internet without it, it makes navigation from site to site much easier for the human mind. So it’s vital that your DNS service is always available, else visitors could not locate your little corner of the […]
For close to a decade now, we’ve embarked on a journey to provide individuals and small businesses with high-quality web hosting. Our goal is to ensure that our service is powerful, reliable, and scalable. Our firm belief is that web hosting should be accessible, quick, and affordable, regardless of your website’s size or your personal […]
Picture this, you just launched your newest product or feature on your website. The buzz surrounding your launch event is taking off. Incoming traffic is surging and orders are pouring in. Then suddenly, the website becomes unresponsive, and downright unusable. Your IT team narrows down the cause to a massive surge of incoming traffic from […]
Disasters are an unfortunate part of life. There are few things worse than losing your enterprise-grade website/application to a fire or other form of disaster. However, one of them is discovering that your Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) is woefully inadequate. You stand to lose many hours and days of generating income without a solid, reliable, […]
In our previous article we discussed differences between MySQL vs. MariaDB as Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) for your enterprise-grade website or application. What is the next step after you decide to make the move into MariaDB? That is where we land now. cPanel servers typically kick off with MySQL already setup and configured by […]
MySQL and MariaDB are two giants in the webhosting industry. Chances are good that your website is backed by one or the other of these two relational database systems. MariaDB originally started out as a drop-in replacement to MySQL that focused on bringing features the community at large had been requesting of MySQL for years. […]
Nothing is more important or impactful to the daily website operation than its database. Afterall, it’s where all the most important data is stored. Whether it is general MySQL, Percona MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Microsoft SQL, or even micro-databases like SQLite, your database needs to be agile, accessible, secure, and above all else resilient. In […]
This is an important question for anyone planning their hosting infrastructure for high-capacity horizontal scaling. File replication is a fundamental component of load balanced environments and the cyberworld by and large would be a very different landscape without managed file replication helping balance the workload among its cluster members. In this guide, we’ll be taking […]
Website owners spend large sums of money making sure their sites are running on the biggest, best equipment available. But, what happens when the server hosting all of your website services cannot cope with an overabundance of inbound traffic? Nothing is more frustrating than having a website break during peak usage times or worse, during […]
In the last ten years, the cloud revolution caught on like wildfire in the tech industry. Most businesses were looking to adopt cloud technology in one way or another. Tech giants such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure led the way in offering public cloud services. But, many businesses are beginning to migrate […]