It is rare these days to find anyone who is doing development work within their live infrastructure, especially when it comes to the bigger sites which is running on multiple servers. So how practical is it to keep development servers … Continue reading →

ForLinux have recently been through and passed its third ISO re-assessment. But what does does this mean for the servers which we host? To start with we have the following in place which directly the effects the way we work … Continue reading →

There are several well established caching solutions available such as Varnish, MemCache, xCache etc. These are all different technologies which can work together or individually to speed up your sites. While each of the solutions work in a different way … Continue reading →

With the amount of websites which are hosted across ForLinux managed servers we see at least one or two script level compromises a week, these are hacks where the points of entry is a script such as a third party … Continue reading →

In the first part we looked at adding an additional server to your solution which took on the role of being a a dedicated database server. More Web Servers – Adding a dedicated database server should free up resources from … Continue reading →

Some websites will always need more resources than others, this is either due to the codebase or because they are getting more popular. As sites get more popular you may find that they start to effect the performance of other … Continue reading →

Over the last year there has been a lot of growth in services such as Groupon, which are able to drive a high amount of traffic to a single site during a short period of time for a very small … Continue reading →

This is a short post on the basic principles of scaling your Apache PHP MySQL based hosted website. Scaling your website isn’t as simple as introducing a new web server. It is easy to upgrade the hardware however, there are … Continue reading →