Category archives: Helping Hints from our Techies
Dell hardware RAID card updating
Over the past month we have been implementing the Dell OpenManage system on our Dell Windows dedicated servers. http://www.dell.com/openmanage This SNMP-based monitoring system gives us a very comprehensive diagnostic readout of the server’s health and notifies us of any impending …
Handy ping and traceroute utility
If you’re wanting to test connectivity to your server by traceroute or ping, this site is very handy; allowing you to do traceroutes from 4 locations simultaneously and pings from tens of locations. Really handy to check connectivity from multiple …
HTTP Compression for IIS6 (Windows Server)
With increased bandwidth charges and other associated overheads incurred with high data flow, HTTP compression may help you out a bit, especially if you have a powerful server which has plenty CPU cycles to spare. Check if YOUR website is …
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Linux Security Alert
It has come to our attention via various security-related online publications, that there is a new local exploit in the wild for Linux kernel 2.6.17 and above. This threat is quite serious and can quite quickly turn any regular user …
123-reg / hosteurope nameserver problems
Over the last weekend, we’ve had several calls from customers thinking their servers are down over the weekend. Upon investigation in every case this has been due to Host Europe (123-reg, pipex etc) having issues with their nameservers, which is …
Setting Reverse DNS
A question we get asked quite a lot by customers is about reverse DNS for their servers. Basically reverse DNS is what converts an IP back into a hostname. The main reason you’d need to amend your reverse DNS is …