Why a backup strategy matters – even though it’s usually invisible A truly beneficial backup strategy means that it will almost be invisible. It will run quietly in the background, archiving the progress of your business without impacting performance. This is why it’s so often left to chance: in almost every case, your business can continue […]
[sg_popup id=”9″ event=”onload”][/sg_popup] Colocation hosting is a lower-cost server hosting strategy using a provider’s high-speed 24/7 internet services, excellent operational security, superior availability and long-term stability while using the customer’s current server inventory. Typically, colocation hosting improves business operations, cuts capital costs and boosts the quality of service that customers experience. Colocation takes the client’s existing […]
EasyApache is a convenient utility on cPanel servers which allows you to manage much of the important software that powers your web server. It manages your installations of Apache, PHP, and many PHP extensions and modules. A common issue encountered while migrating websites between servers is differences in the environment on the destination server. For […]
GigeNET Marks 15 Years of Selling cPanel by Reinvesting in Relationship GigeNET, an innovator in resilient managed cloud and dedicated hosting, reaffirms partnership with cPanel to mark 15 years of selling cPanel licensing. “cPanel has been so instrumental in the creation of the hosting industry I think you would be hard pressed to imagine the […]
Migrating your websites from one server to another can be a difficult and time consuming process, but with preparation and consideration, it can go smoothly. Throughout my time as a systems administrator, migrations have been some of the most time consuming tasks I’ve worked on. The purpose of this guide is to provide you with […]
Right-sizing is not about cutting resources or radically changing your environment. It is about finding the best options while taking your process into account. Even then we typically save customers 40% off their monthly costs. Our solution architects audit your infrastructure, finding optimization points you may have missed or haven’t had time to find. Optimizations […]
Syncthing is a fantastic decentralized file synchronization utility, which functions in a manner similar to other cloud storage services like Dropbox or Google Drive, but is self-hosted and does not require a central server to operate. We recently covered Syncthing on another blog post and wanted to give some further more condensed tips for first […]
There are a variety of computing workloads that support successful business operations. If we were to maximize resource usage for these workloads, we would end up with a vast assortment of computer chassis, hard drives, RAM chips, and a host of various other computer parts. And although this assortment would provide coverage for the current […]
You can’t reach your site and you are starting to panic. Quickly, you log into your hosting provider’s ticketing system and type out, “OMG! Site Down! Help, Help, Help!” Now, before you click Submit on that ticket, take a moment to go through a simple checklist that may help resolve the issue sooner, and possibly […]
This adventure was kicked off by my intent to research an open source supplement or replacement for the enterprise backup solution R1soft ServerBackup. At GigeNET we heavily utilize R1soft, and its API to manage the backups for our fully managed customers. The backup software we have chosen all range in feature set, and complexity. Here […]