Hypervisors are an essential part of the technology supporting cloud computing. There are two types of hypervisors — type 1 or bare-metal and type 2 or hosted, and numerous solutions in the market. In this post we are going to cover both types, including a list of well-known hypervisor solutions — both commercial and open-source.
This guide on how to achieve a High Availability WordPress website addresses the main aspects to consider to ensure high availability, performance and resilience for a WordPress corporate website or WooCommerce-based eCommerce. Downtime cannot only have a negative impact on business revenues but can also seriously damage your brand reputation. It is not to be
Cron is a time-based job scheduler used for automating and scheduling repetitive tasks, periodical collection of data, alerts, etc. The cron daemon or crond allows users to manage and run tasks automatically at specific time intervals. It is one of the key tools for scheduling tasks in Linux and Unix-like operating systems. Cron Cron is
AlmaLinux is a free, open source Linux distribution, created by CloudLinux and supported both by CloudLinux and other sponsors. It is focused on long-term stability and governed by the community; with regular releases. It is licensed under General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) and other licenses. AlmaLinux distribution Like other distributions such as Rocky Linux,
A man in the middle attack is a security attack during which an attacker enters a communication between two parties undetected, redirecting data to pass through a node he controls. It is a type of session hijacking. Let’s deep into what a man in the middle attack is as well as into how to prevent
Preparing your eCommerce Black Friday strategy? Keep in mind these 5 simple steps to ensure your eCommerce site can make the most of this campaign. With consumers getting more and more sophisticated and demanding, every second counts. Thus, high-availability, performance and security are more important than ever. A great sales and marketing plan can bring
In computing, load testing is a type of performance test used to simulate concurrent user visits and interactions in an environment or site to verify whether it can handle both expected and high load conditions. Load tests help determine maximum operating capacity as well as bottlenecks or issues that might be causing a degradation of
Plesk is the most popular commercial web hosting control panel on the market. It is actively developed by Plesk International GmbH, under a proprietary license, and its last release is Plesk Obsidian. What is Plesk? Plesk is a commercial web hosting control panel developed for Linux and Windows. It is targeted to infrastructure providers, IT
Performance tests help measure diverse aspects of web applications, sites and environments, in order to guarantee they are fast, stable and scalable. There are diverse types of performance tests, such as load tests, stress tests or capacity tests. What is a performance test? Performance tests are used to measure stability, scalability, throughput and performance of
In computing, stress testing is a type of performance test used to determine the stability and reliability of systems and applications. Also known as “endurance testing” or “torture testing”, it is particularly recommended for mission critical systems and infrastructures. Stress tests Stress tests push hardware and software capabilities beyond normal operating conditions in order to
