When To Go Dedicated Server Route?

June 30th, 2006 I am working to transition my server to dedicated web hosting. My Westhost VPS account is crumbling under traffic and no amount of optimization is being able to handle anymore the heavy traffic I am getting.

October 20th, 2007 While configuring your routing (like load balancing with dual ADSL connections) you would often need to view the current route cache and also to occasionally delete the current cache. Here is how you can do it.

August 12th, 2007 One of the main challenges of managing multiple dedicated web / database servers is the ability to centrally monitor and manage them, automate tasks which requires out-of-band access like rebooting the server or find out if the server is dying and arrange for replacement ahead of time etc. Unless you are a very big web service provider, chances are you are using dedicated servers from one or more of dedicated web hosting providers.

August 28th, 2007 This is a news to me! I am using LayeredTech dedicated server for over a year and just today while browsing their new encompass console I found they have three nice buttons labelled Reboot, Power On & Power Off. Obviously I tried and it worked.

July 5th, 2006 I have been looking for a unmanaged dedicated web hosting provider for the last 7 days or so. I performed sucks tests (search in Google for "xyz sucks"), went to web hosting forums, asked questions to the provider, analyzed their plans with a fine tooth comb.

July 5th, 2006 I prepared a list of questions to ask potential unmanaged dedicated web hosting providers for my sites. Note: I have collected some questions from the web (forgot the url) and added my own.

October 14th, 2007 Autoexec.bat is a legacy file in Windows which is executed every time you start Windows. Commands you want to run with startup of windows, and applicable to all users, are added to autoexec.bat.

August 28th, 2006 I faced serious hacking attempts from a server owned by my dedicated web hosting provider, LayeredTech. More than 23, 000 brute force attempts were made on ssh server alone.

November 23rd, 2007 I learned it the hard way. Our gateway machine with firewall (shorewall) has multiple ADSL connections configured with load balancing for more bandwidth and transparent fail-over.

May 29th, 2008 I am a long time LayeredTech dedicated server customer. Today out of the blue LayeredTech increased the price by 26%! None of the "service improvements" directly benefits average customers like us: Implementation of a new enterprise-wide management system to integrate all client touch points and improve response times.

July 12th, 2006 Whew! Finally I have transferred my site to a sparkling new dedicated server. It was a very eventful journey.

July 13th, 2007 Any growing business has to eventually move to high end web hosting solutions like Colocation, Dedicated Web Hosting, Managed Hosting or Fully Outsourced solution. Let's look at the advantages and disadvantages of each solution.

July 13th, 2007 I had several reports from users that the site is inaccessible from certain ISP's including but not limited to CableVision. I did everything to figure out what went wrong without much success.

July 7th, 2006 Finally my (unmanaged dedicated) server has been deployed (under 48 hours). Now my actual work begins.

July 9th, 2007 After we complete an outsourcing effort for a F 500 and wrap up dispatching all the upgrades for Translator 5.0, we will collectively go for a period of "working vacation" lasting about 2 months or so. What is a "working vacation"? My definition of "working vacation" is when we tie all the loose ends, upgrade infrastructure, hire new employees and train them, setup few additional dedicated servers (any recommendation?), switch web server, fix and add features to Comment Guard plugin for future release, setup 24/7 site and server backup, prototype new ideas, develop spike solutions etc.