Category archives: Helping Hints from our Techies
The five dangers of Virtual Servers – Part 4
Welcome to the fourth and final part of our series of posts on The five dangers of Virtual Servers. Danger 4: The danger of over-contention There’s a potential for over-selling with virtual servers, as the provider may not tell you …
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PCI Compliance: SSL
Over the coming weeks, I’ll be covering a number of technical aspects required to achieve PCI compliance. For information on what PCI compliance is and when you’ll require it, see this detailed wikipedia entry. For now, let’s move onto our …
The five dangers of Virtual Servers – Part 3
Welcome to the third installment of “the five dangers of virtual servers”. In my previous post, I talked about the danger of interference from other customers’ VMs on badly-configured platforms. So let’s move on to the next potential pitfall: Danger …
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The five dangers of Virtual Servers – Part 2
In my previous post, we were talking about the danger of hardware failure in virtual machines. Let’s move on to the next… Danger Two: The danger of interference from other customers’ virtual servers. There are several ways in which one …
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The five dangers of Virtual Servers – Part 1
In this short series of blog posts, we’ll be looking at five important considerations you need to make when choosing a virtual server. It may seem that all virtual servers, or cloud servers, are similar, but like everything technical, the …
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Dedicated or Virtual?
Now virtualisation has reached maturity, virtual servers are a real alternative to dedicated servers. However, they’re not ideal for all situations. From our point-of-view we’re seeing virtual servers as a great alternative to our entry-level dedicated servers, and a great …
Optimising the LAMP Stack – MySQL
As with any web application, a great level of thought and planning goes into the optimization of the webapp to ensure fast response times. However, what often gets overlooked is the configuration of the LAMP stack itself. There is plenty …
Remote Desktop: re-directing non-local printers
Quite a specific case this one, but something I’ve seen quite often when people are using Remote Desktop (RDP) to work remotely. Basically, with RDP, you can map the printers on your local workstation to the server you’re connecting to, …
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Windows Firewall – Yes or No?
Since the release of Windows XP and, later, its companion Windows Server 2003, Microsoft have packaged a basic firewall with its operating systems. Formerly known as “Internet Connection Firewall”, this has become a popular addition to the bundled packages, with …
Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection
(Terminal Service Client 6.0) (Applies to Windows XP only) For those of you who use Remote Desktop to manage your servers, and, let’s face it that’s most of us who use Windows servers, the updated version of the RDP client …