Dedicated Server Uptime Samples
I just logged into two random dedicated servers and I am always happy about the time uptimes we have: 13:05:37 up 960 days, 21 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 14:11:14 up...
Author: Areeb Soo Yasir
My first 8TB Seagate Drive
Just for memories I kept the dmesg output of when I hotplugged this drive into my LSI Logic SAS2008 based card. For those who are wondering any chipset that is 3TB capable will work...
How To Make Your Office IT/Computer Hardware More Green
As part of doing my part for the environment I consolidated a lot of other server/computer hardware in my office into a low-power, quiet and cool running Dedicated AMD Opteron Desktop Workstation Server from...
Personal Best Hosting Advice for Shared, VPS and Dedicated Servers
Since one of our product offerings is offering hosting I’m often asked by friends and family which company they should use and where they should host, and which host is the best for their...
Windows VPS Server 2008/2012 VPS (Virtual Private Server) are too RAM intensive
I’ll let the image for this post do the talking. It is a freshly installed Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter VPS that I quickly provisioned in my test lab (for testing :)). The only thing...
OpenBSD Install Howto Guided Experience
Download the OpenBSD 5.8 x64 install .iso from compevo mirror Just a note that on KVM OpenBSD runs very slow in terms of disk access for some reason (it takes forever to even format...
Will the PC and Server Based computing become obsolete?
There has been much debate over the years and it’s easy to see there is a lot of momentum and gravitation towards smart phones and tablets because they are convenient and are capable of...
Rebooting a Linux Dedicated server with no hard drives from the shell
I just thought I would finally test this so I simulated a complete RAID array failure by pulling all of the drives at once. This results in an input/output error when trying to do...
Green Computing with a Server Based Desktop Workstation
A lot of people whether friends or family wonder what kind of computer I have and usually say something along the lines of “Areeb must have a supercomputer as a PC”. Most people are...
WIPO UDRP Domain Dispute Domain Seizure Experience
When providing hosting and domain registration services, there are known and various risks including fraud, DOS attacks etc… Unfortunately in this case, it was customer based fraud and this is something almost impossible to...
