Question: Is it possible to maintain 100% uptime for my site? Answer: Yes, it is possible to maintain 100% uptime. To maintain 100% uptime would require a significant investment in the web hosting setup. This setup would cost in the millions each year and would require contracts with dozens of different datacenter operators. The site […]
Question: Will having SSD drives instead of regular hard drives really speed up my site? Answer: Yes, using SSD drives instead of regular hard drives will show a difference with your site. Sold state drives (SSD) are faster in both reading and writing data to the drives compared to disk hard drives. SSD drives do […]
Question: Should I turn on IPv6 support for my website? Answer: If have a shared web hosting account then IPv6 support may not be available. Some shared web hosts support IPv6 while most do not at this time. If you are running your own server, VPS, or are using a cloud web host that supports […]
If you choose to host your website with a web host that uses only one bandwidth provider to connect to the Internet than you are at risk of not being reachable. There is no real issue with having a web host that has only 1 or 2 links to the Internet. The issue is when […]
This tutorial will show you how to create an FTP user with Cpanel. Once you have a FTP user you can allow that user to upload files to a specific directory that you want. 1) Locate the add FTP User icon in your control panel. The icon is called “FTP Accounts”. 2) Choose a username, […]
The CentOS project has announced that CentOS 6.8 is now available for i386 and x86_64. CentOS 6.8 is based on the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.8. Some major changes with CentOS 6.8: -XFS file system can now support a maximum size of 300 TB -squid 3.4 is now available -enhancements made […]
If you are running CentOS and want to update all the software that was installed via yum. You can execute the following command, yum will download the updates and proceed to install them. You should be the root user to be able to execute the commands below. After the update process has been completed you […]
Follow these steps to setup a subdomain for your website in Cpanel. 1. Login to your web host’s control panel. There is a good chance that your web host is probably using Cpanel. 2. After you login successful. You should see the following area inside Cpanel. Click on “Subdomains” to continue to the creation of […]
During the early days of the internet everyone’s website had “www” as the starting part of their website address. Like www.google.com and www.yahoo.com. Nowadays you don’t need to have “www” as part of your address. Some people say having the “www” makes it take longer to type with three more keystrokes. While others may say […]
This is a tutorial on how to manage your Nginx web server under CentOS 7.x, Debian 8.x (Jessie), and FreeBSD 10.x. Commands to start, stop, and restart Nginx web server for these operating systems are shown below and are separated by the different operating systems. CentOS (version 7.x) To start Nginx under CentOS: systemctl start […]