Memory consumption
(this post will also appear in our virtual private server blog) Nowadays, CPU performance is something that is pretty easy to achieve with comparably little investment. Intel’s L/X34xx, E/L/X56xx, or...
View ArticleTraffic and bandwidth, revisited
Today, I read a thread in a feedback forum: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/archive/index.php/t-1052232.html There is a lot of talk and fuss about what is legitimate use for these 150TB plans, whether...
View ArticleRAID
RAID is intended to keep your dedicated servers or your virtual private server (VPS) alive and your data redundant in case of single (or more) disk failures – allowing you to replace faulty hardware in...
View ArticleChecking connectivity
There are various tools to measure and check connectivity of your dedicated server and virtual private server. Below we will give an overview over the most common ones, along with their most widespread...
View ArticleE3 Sandybridge: 32GB RAM now affordable
Prices for the 8GB 1333 DDR3 ECC unbuffered RAM modules for the E3 based servers have come down considerably lately. While still not linear compared to the 4 GB modules, the price difference is now a...
View ArticleIOPS and RAID considerations
IOPS (input/output operations per second) are still – maybe even more so than ever – the most prominent and important metric to measure storage performance. With SSD technology finding its way into...
View Articleiftop – or where’s my server’s bandwidth going?!
During the past weeks we gave a small introduction to UNIX and Linux commands that may be nice to have at hand when it comes to administrating a server from the command shell, making some quick...
View ArticleNTP Amplification Attack – the gist of it
With recent DDOS attacks increasingly using NTP as an attack vector, and one of Cloudflare’s clients recently having been hit with a DDOS attack just short of 400gbps, we believe it is necessary to...
View ArticleLatency and Throughput as key components of network performance
We have recently added another transit feed to our New York PoP, with a declared aim to bring down latency between London and New York to sub 70ms. We are more than happy to be able to state that...
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