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Finding a good virtual Web hosting company can done by asking current and former customers about their experience. I know this may seem like a big pain in the ass, and maybe impractical, but think about how critical your web presence is to your operation. If you’re site goes offline due to a web hosts tech issue, you’ll very likely spend hours on the phone and on your email trying to get back up. Many online tools are available that can assist you to find an extremely reliable hosting service. With the myriad of choice available, it is necessary for the consumer to discriminate. Since shared Web hosting is conceived as only a low-end, low-margin commodity by the industry itself, it is necessary for the consumer to be very wary. There are literally thousands of hosts that offer shared and virtual Web hosting services. While many provide extremely good service, others provide service that is less than desirable. In order to find suitable Web hosts, consumers must conduct due diligence.

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On the Wal-Mart-ized Web...

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:39:00 -0400

Liam says this week's most important trend is web hosting providers' continued expansion of data center footprints. The strong demand for hosting facilities seems like a good sign. At the same time, there are a number of outside-world developments that folks in the hosting business ought to keep an eye on.

1. On Wednesday, in addition to officially releasing RHEL5, Red Hat announced that it will soon launch an open source marketplace called Red Hat Exchange (RHX). As Business Week reports, Red Hat will guarantee the compatibility of RHX products with its platform AND provide tech support for each and every 3rd party product on the exchange. In addition, RHX will allow end users to submit ratings, read reviews and compare notes.

2. Later that afternoon, Microsoft said it will buy Tellme Networks. The Associated Press thinks the deal is worth $800 million to $1 billion.

3. Less than a day later, Cisco announced that it has agreed to acquire WebEx for $3.2 billion (or $2.9 billion, if you deduct WebEx's $300 million cash balance).

4. And last but not least Google sort of confirmed that it's working on a mobile phone.

It's a Wal-Mart-ized web; every Big Co wants to assemble a broader range of more seamlessly integrated products for a wider and better networked audience. This leaves less and less of a market for old school vendors who sell standalone widgets to isolated prospects.

For instance, consider 1&1's recent survey of 765 small business owners. Andreas says 100% of the respondents agree that the absence of a company website is bad for sales, but there's much more to these customers' operations beyond setting up a web presence. Might they not benefit from Zoho or ThinkFree powered productivity apps? SharePoint based collaboration? CRM?

More importantly, Andreas counts "hundreds of thousands of US small businesses" among his customers. As such, one super valuable feature that he's uniquely positioned to deliver is a 1&1 social network through which customers can connect with potential vendors, partners and buyers. I feel like 1&1 is really missing out by amassing a sizable community without leveraging it for its members' benefit.

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Moved from Web24 to Linode

Fri, 02 May 2008 16:28:28 +1000

(Note: This is a review of VPS hosting services provided by Web24 and Linode, and a migration of one of my sites from one to the other at the end of March 2008.)

Web24 — Virtuozzo VPS in Australia

Back in early this year I talked about writing a review on Web24.com.au, which I used to replace a VPS I got from GPLHost, which I terminated last December as I was using too much bandwidth (and was too cheap to pay :) The VPS I got from Web24 was their Silver package, a Virtuzzo Linux VPS running Ubuntu Linux, with 384MB guaranteed memory, over 6+GB of privvmpages (burstable memory), 50GB/month data transfer, and was located in Fujitsu data centre in Melbourne (see their profile on VPSAU). All these for under AUD$50/month — very affordable for my little sites.

Great Network, Great Uptime, Great Customer Service

Other than the Web24-wide connectivity issue back in February, their network has been rock solid. I am getting around 35ms from my home ADSL2+ to my VPS, and have used 30-40GB a month without issue.

My VPS there also had great uptime. It was up for the entire period — almost 120 days without rebooting. It has certainly demonstrated the stability of Virtuozzo. Hardware wise Web24 was using a 2.4Ghz Xeon with 4x physical core and 8GB of physical memory. However, cpulimit of my VPS has been set to 160% so I can only use around 960Mhz of each CPU core (and 4 cores at the same time), which is not bad at all. Web applications are rarely constrained by CPU power anyway.

Customer service wise — top notch, all the way from pre-sale to support. I have sent in a few support tickets and all of them have been answered in timely manner. GPLHost still has a better service though in my opinion because they are not only solving your problems, reporting back their progress, but also following up after the issues have been resolved.

Then There was Performance Issue

The main reason I am moving away from Web24 is performance, or lack of it. As I have said previously that the server CPUs have more than enough power, but my website over there has suffered much degraded performance throughout February and March, due to large amount of I/O wait.

First of all, what am I hosting there? A small-medium sized Drupal-based community site with around 5,000-7,000 visits per day, 800+k page views and 7.5 million hits per month. Lots of customisation and optimisation, and lots of fragment caching. Lighty on the front-end with 5x PHP+xcache/FastCGI processes (which is more than enough). MySQL 5 with a fat key buffer and query_cache_size to optimise on read requests. I am also trying to stay way below the memory limitation just to be on the safe side. In fact I usually use no more than 200MB under privvmpages. And I thought I was safe.

Not really.

Unfortunately I am not able to reproduce all the communications between Web24 support and myself (as I have a bad habit of deleting old emails), but most support issues I raised were performance related.

Swapping Swapping and Constantly Swapping

20 December 2007 evening, my VPS suddenly stopped responding. Yes it still responded to ICMP pings. Yes you can still connect to port 80, but PHP/FastCGI backend won’t load. SSH in took forever, and once I was in I checked the loadavg it went skyrocket. Type in free -m and I was shocked to discover that all the swap space has been exhausted. free, buffers and cached are all on single digit. Note that on Virtuozzo 3 UBC this is from meminfo of the host server, and has nothing to do with my own VPS. The host server was breathlessly swapping to cope with memory shortage. I cannot remember how long it lasted but it did resolve itself at the end, probably with OOM and some process slaughtering. It wasn’t pretty.

So in the middle of my panicking, I fired a support request. It was escalated and a few hours later someone responded saying it was a CPU issue rather than memory issue, and was caused by someone else’s VPS getting compromised. The swap space on the host server then got increased from 2GB to 12GB. I was trying to argue that it WAS a memory/swapping issue, and my processes cannot get enough CPU time because everyone was busy paging in and out! Nope. Web24 denied about it. The problem was with the CPU they said, which was definitely not what vmstat told me.

I/O Wait Issue Got Worse

Performance irregularity continued, and got worse around February and March. During peak hours (which for my site is 9am-11pm AEST), the 15-minute load average might go up to 4-5 for a period of 5-10 minutes every now and then, and my site would completely stall. 15-minute load average doesn’t drop back down below 0.5 during peak hours, and simple commands line ls feels sluggish — a sure sign of I/O wait issue. Swap usage on the host server has been ranging from 4GB-6GB (out of 12GB total swap space), and sometimes some of my key processes got swapped out even though I am only using half the guaranteed memory.

So I posted this question at WebHostingTalk (without mentioning who the provider was), and asked for opinions.

The question I would like to ask is — is it possible to pin-point why the VPS is slow? My apps are obviously not CPU bounded, and as iostat is not really working in Virtuozzo I cannot tell whether it is IO-bounded inside my VPS either. Is it possible to find out whether it is due to excessive paging on the physical server, so I can go to my provider and say, “hey you are overselling and you should not pack that many VE into a physical server”.

And the responses I’ve got:

… when a VPS node is using ANY swap at all that’s your first warning sign that the server is being pushed to its extremes.
— seankoons at Zone.net

My take: It’s vastly oversold…
— TheWiseOne at TekTonic

If 5GB of SWAP is being used, I’d say they are overselling…
— devonblzx at Reseller3k

Well. I guess I got te message. Despite claims that “We do not overcommit on our VPS infrastructure”, looks like Web24 has just jammed too many people onto that host node. Or maybe my hypothesis with UBC-based VPS hosting is true — by providing 6+GB of burstable memory, you are basically inviting everyone to use as much as they want, and OOM won’t kick in until swap space has been exhausted — which would be probably too late. In that case they might not be overselling if they calculated with the amount of guaranteed memory, but poor UBC settings can still make you look bad. Not that I am going to be hosted with another UBC-based VPS provider anyway.

Moved to Linode

As traffic to my website has also been slowly growing, I was facing two choices — move up to the next plan, or move elsewhere (again). With the performance issues at Web24, I do not think moving up to the 512MB guaranteed plan will do any wonder. AUD$50/month is all I am willing to pay anyway, which means I won’t be able to find any virtual servers in Australia that will fit in my budget. With over 85% of traffic coming from Down Under, it makes sense to also host my site in Australia. But when budget becomes a constraint — well I guess I can live with a bit of latency.

As I still kept a Xen VPS at Linode after my review in January (yes, I actually became a customer), it is at Fremont CA which is “close enough” to Australia for me, I decided to make a migration from Web24 to Linode at the end of March.

So one evening I changed the DNS TTL to 15 minutes, put up a maintenance notice on my website, copy all the files across (which was less than 200MB), set everything up at Linode, make sure everything works, and update the DNS records to let them propagate. The next morning — traffic as usual, and everything “just works”. You do feel the lag typing inside a SSH session, but you cannot actually tell much difference with page serving. I guess the poor performance at Web24 sort of cancels out the benefit of low latency.

My community site has now been running for a month now at Linode and the performance has been great. In April it has been 8,000+ visitors/day and used around 62GB of data. Linode Platform Manager shows 4% of average CPU utilisation last month, and my Linode 360 uses little swap and always has 200+MB of (free + buffers + cached). 15 minute loadavg rarely goes above 0.1… 200GB/month of data transfer means it will probably last me a while.

Verdict

A few concluding points:

• Don’t always believe what the support says. Gather your own evidence. Even a vmstat dump can point out roughly where the bottleneck is.





• Xen >> Virtuozzo. Yes I know Matt is advertising here, but personally I still much prefer Xen than Virtuozzo. At least you get a virtualised block device where iostat can tell you how much I/O you are doing.




• 
  

  When you have high load on a Virtuozzo/OpenVZ VPS, adding more memory have no value by itself (despite many have suggested this at WHT). If you are CPU-bound (not likely) — check whether there’s a cpulimit on your VPS and ask your provider to remove it. If you are IO-bound (very likely), then you can go and get more memory PLUS implement aggressive caching throughout the stack so hopefully there is less load on the database, if you are the trouble maker.

  
  
  

  If you are not the one causing the problem, or maybe optimisation is not your cup of tea, then prepare to jump ship.

  
  




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Christian Web Hosting?

I don't believe in applying the title "Christian" to a product. Web hosting is a computing technology and is no more Christian than an automobile or blender. The larger principle that a Church ought to consider is the quality of the service for the price offered and being good stewards of their money. In my web hosting ratings, there are detailed reviews of features to match differing site needs. Service, reliability, and value for the money are all Biblical business principles. I looked at the web hosting services that call themselves "Christian Web Hosting" and found their prices to be too high for the service offered; hence, they did not appear in my top web hosting ratings.

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In Superman III Richard Pryor is a computer programmer; he wonders where all those ½ cents at the end of payroll checks go. He puts them to good use...his paycheck.

Charles WU - head honcho at CW Labs made one of those ISPCON luncheon presentations that was actually interesting. In the middle of it I thought...this guy looked at something boring...and saw billions. All of a sudden it became very interesting.

Unbeknownst to us he noted the slow death of dial-up. But sees dollars in that slow bandwidth...forget 56k...he likes 28k. Forget something in the future that may not work like 500 HDTV channels over the Internet, R&D is always a *itch...lets make some money.

During the presentation Charles used the word trillion...his graphics showed a bunch of lines connecting each other, sort of like a half circle, with arrows going back and forth. His R&D staff has invented some stuff, they want to put the ISP in this graphic. Somewhere near the top left, second dot down. He called it the money spot.

Charles WU wants to put the ISP in the credit card processing system. He wants you to be part of that trillion dollar economy, the part that takes a ½% here and ½% there. Swipe that card and a bunch of people takes a slice of that swipe…someone has to do it.

Talk to WU if you want to understand the technical part, not my area. However there is hardware, software, intellectual property, licensing and other stuff involved.

In the evening Wu kindly gave away food and drinks as we gambled at a charity event. Everyone was happy.

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problem and that ticket has been 'resolved' (not!). Just like every previous
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A content management system is a computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of documents and other content. A content management system is sometimes a web application used for managing websites and web content, though in many cases, content management systems require special client software for editing and constructing articles. They can also be used for storage and single sourcing of documentation for a firm including but not limited to operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, etc. The market for content management systems remains fragmented, with many open-source and proprietary solutions available. The term was originally used for website publishing and management systems. Early content management systems were developed internally at organizations which were doing a lot of content publishing. In 1995, CNET spun out its internal development offerings into a separate company called Vignette, which opened up the market for commercial systems. As the market evolved, the scope of content management systems broadened, and the term is now used to refer to a range of technologies and techniques, including portal systems, wiki systems, and web-based groupware.

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Ubuntu Server Upgrade to 8.04 Hardy Heron

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:30:23 +1000

First of all I have to confess that I have been very busy over the last months or two and have not really been motivated to write. I have a few other projects happening at the same time — at work, at home, at church and at my other websites, and I apologise for neglecting this blog. Hopefully I will get back to writing here again. I am also hoping to write shorter pieces — maybe just 2 or 3 paragraphs — so I can make more frequent posts.

Now, something I have been doing over the last couple of days is to upgrade my Ubuntu servers to 8.04 Hardy Heron, which was “officially” released last Thursday. Now it has been almost two months since I wrote my last blog post, which was about switching from Gentoo to Ubuntu, and now most servers/VPSs that I am personally responsible for (except those at work) are running Ubuntu. Hardy Heron is a LTS (Long Term Support) release which I am hoping to build most my apps on for the next 2 weeks. Upgrading to it from previous Ubuntu releases is surprisingly trivial.

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The first two steps are only there to ensure you already have latest updates for the current release. It’s quite possible that “update-manager-core” has already been installed. “do-release-upgrade” does all the bulky work — checking whether a new release is available, checking how many packages need to be updated, download, unpackage and install all packages + resolving potential conflicts, etc. And at the end it just reboots your server. Wait for a minute and two, connect back in and hopefully you will be running 8.04 Hardy Heron. I was lucky that it worked on all my Ubuntu boxes.

Do note that the upgrading script, which was written in Python, does chew up quite a lot of memory. I have one tiny 64MB (+256MB swap) VPS that almost got killed with OOM. So be prepared, but YMMV.

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ixwebhosting has their own advanced data center that they alone administer and
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The hosting includes an online file browser, file editor, page creation utility,
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Bluehost review after 13 months hosted

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www.bluehostreview.org is bluehost review site hosted with bluehost web hosting. Perhaps this is not the first time you heard of bluehostreview.org. This bluehost reviews site had been running since march 2007, until today march 2008. Over the 13 months of reviewing bluehost web hosting, this bluehost review blog had grown in size and popularity. This ...]

DreamHost promo code

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:39:02 +0000
One of the most common problems faced by an individual hosting a web page is the administration or maintenances. Most of the people who host web pages feel that there job is over once they have uploaded the web page but that actual job begins there. If an individual does not host his web page ...]

Monday Night Boat Cruise at Parallels Summit

Tue, 20 May 2008 07:10:53 -0800

theWHIR.com posted a photo:

Nice view of the sites with a rare DC sunset down the Potomac River, sponsored by Microsoft. Thanks, Microsoft!

cPanel = CRUD PANEL

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:49:25 -0400

In today’s web hosting world there is a 'de-facto' control panel called cPanel. There is a large segment of reseller hosting and shared hosting customers who look for cPanel hosts. To a certain extent, many of those looking for reseller web hosting accounts are looking for cPanel hosts.

Because cPanel is one of the most established control panels in the web hosting market, if a customer transfers to a new host, choosing a host with cPanel will make it easy for them to migrate their settings and will minimize the learning curve with the new host.

Of course there are other competitors (DirectAdmin, Plesk & H-Sphere to name a few), but cPanel is simply the most wide-spread.

cPanel has become a force in the market - they have easily past the critical mass of customers that they need to be a dominant market power and they can charge whatever price they want, they can be slow with bug fixes, they can be slow with new features and they cna be slow with updates.

There are many problems with cPanel... a very breif list would be:
* While some of cPanel is open-source, there are a lot of encoded, compiled routines that are vital to its functioning. If you find a bug (and believe me there are many), you have to wait for cPanel to decide that they want to fix it.
* A lot of the cPanel code is compiled Perl - this makes extremely large and extremely slow binaries that need to run each time or whm is called.
* cPanel offers no clustering support (I don't call distributed name servers 'clustering')... scalable hosts need the ability to have separate email servers, MySQL servers, email list servers, etc). Because some vital routines are hard-coded into cPanel, it can't even be ported, upgraded or patched to do distributed hosting without major problems
* cPanel tries to offer everything to everyone (and run on over a dozen Linux/Unix platforms and windows!]) you wind up with an installation that is simply bloated well beyond what most hosts will need. Can you fathom cPanel + windows? It's a sysadmin nightmare. What sane web hosting system administrator would want this burden on their shouldiers?

My advice to cPanel is simple: Stop trying to support dozens of operating environments, choose an OS, support it, fix it and maintain it.

There are simply so many bugs that are confirmed by cPanel but not fixed. For example this bug report was reported by us in November of 2005, confirmed by cPanel on Dec. 1st 2005 and it is still unresolved as of Today, Sept 14th, 2006.

Instead of spending their time fixing known (and confirmed) bugs and improving their software, cPanel decided to work on their own script-deployment system (cPAddons).. that'd be a very useful feature except that Fantastico for cPanel provides around 50 pre-installed scripts, blogs, message boards and more. *shock* - cPanel has wasted their time.

Reseller hosting customers have expectations from their providers: speed and reliability from the servers and quick resolution from the hosting company. cPanels compiled binaries & bloating have slowed our servers down, bloated them down with useless software and their (extremely) slow response times have simply forced us to give responses such as "this is a cPanel bug, our hands are tied until cPanel resolves this issue".

The above is an excellent summary as to why our shared web hosting system runs on our own in-house developed control panel, SimpleCP. Running our own control panel on our shared hosting servers gives us power, flexibility, scalability & performance that we could never dream of with cPanel. It is for those reasons as well that we will be creating a fast, clustered/distributed and responsive replacement for cPanel for our reseller customers.

Lunarpages Coupon - Hidden Hosting Savings

Thu, 31 May 2007 13:36:21 +0000
I found that Lunarpages has a hidden little gem on their website that they don’t want you to know about! It’s a hidden coupon - available at: http://www.lunarpages.com/lunarpages_coupon.php
The coupon saves you $26 off hosting, nice find for anyone who needs some quality hosting.
Enjoy!
Steve
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How do i track the hits my website gets?

Fri, 25 May 2007 13:28:56 +0000
The first way to check hits is by server side scripts. These usually come provided by your host and are normally found on your control panel. These applications such as Awstats will produce reports every so often and show hits.
Another way is to use a hit counter script and place this on your website. This ...]


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