We have finally made some domain name statistics calculations from the zone files. The following below are the statistics for TLD .COM .NET and .ORG domain names on August 30, 2008.

77248559 .COM
11747280 .NET
7049363 .ORG

Total of 96045202 domain name registrations.

Xen is really good for running Virtual Private Servers with root access and dedicated RAM. It’s a true virtualization platform that offers multiple local root servers on one physical server hardware. With XEN VPS you get your own virtual server with fully dedicated memory (RAM), process list, file system and a share of central hardware CPU.

Xen Virtual Private Server is perfect for sites that require custom software installation, or even custom daemon configuration that can’t be run on a shared server. Plus, VPS offers better security because you have your own file system that is not shared with… Read the rest of this entry »

When many people hear the word ‘hobby’ they think of it as a small project that helps to pass the time, on a rainy afternoon. While that is true for some, there are countless individuals will turn into little hobby into a booming business. It really is possible to make a considerable profit doing something you love.

Of course the success won’t happen overnight. It will take planning and hard work just like any on the business, but with determination it will happen.

The greatest thing about turning a hobby into a business is that it probably won’t even seem… Read the rest of this entry »

This weekend we had a chance to test out high-bandwidth WordPress blog set-up configurations and performance. We had a customer that landed multiple Digg front page stories and we had to tune the server to deal with the high peak time traffic.

For best performance we usually deploy Nginx and tie it together with Apache as a back-end for PHP processing, memcached, super cache and do a lot of rewriting rules and other optimizations.

The server is powered by one CPU Quad Core 5430 series processor, with 2GB RAM and SATA drives, runs on a SuperMicro server board. It’s a… Read the rest of this entry »

Many folks ask us what is the best platform/OS for web hosting platform? Is it Centos, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Suse or Fedora. While, Centos, FreeBSD, Fedora is more common in USA, SUSE beats deployment statistics in Europe – Germany. Finding Suse and Gento from USA dedicated server companies is somewhat tricky. I am of course not speaking about virtual private servers.

I don’t like much Fedora either because of quick end-of-life (EOF) for updates and upgrading usually costs money, requires downtime and somewhat complex for novice users. So we have rounded down to Centos Linux or FreeBSD. Very good, let’s continue.… Read the rest of this entry »

Some Centos users are complaining about the following error when executing SUDO:

audit_log_user_command(): Connection refused

However, this is nothing to worry about. Centos kernel doesn’t have this feature enabled for audit and this is why it’s complaining. For example, Fedora has compiled this feature into own kernel and no problems are reported. Until a “bug” fix is released feel free to ignore this error message.

We have seen great performance on using ReiserFS for mail system spools and in our tests ReiserFS file system spool for Postfix queues was very fast. For best performance we used

notail, noatime mount options in /etc/fstab file.

Full example:

/dev/sda2/usr reiserfs notail,noatime,rw,auto 0 0

notatime – turns off atimes calls, reduces IO and greatly increases file system performance
notail – increases performance of ReiserFS especially for small files – works great for mail servers, web servers and caches. This option disables file pckaging in tree.

With more and more complicated sites coming to the internet, you can create functional and attractive websites. When you receive proposals from your developer, you can choose LAMP which is the best technology available today. Today internet has large number of opportunities for creation and management of a website. Now you can build a website absolutely free and open source with Linux Apache MySQL PHP, popularly known and abbreviated as LAMP, a powerful and common bundle of technology components.

The combined components of LAMP viz., Linux is a very popular operating system; Apache is a web server, MySQL is a… Read the rest of this entry »

MySQL is considered today as the best for its performance as the system is popular for its open source database using Structured Query Language, or SQL for its operation. The databases allow you for central collection of data like blog, location of files or members database to forum. The programming languages PHP organizes the database. MySQL is also widely accepted as an efficient, reliable and fast system using relationship to plan and organize data.

Earlier websites were composed of html pages which contained all the data on an individual page. Now, you can find the large portions of website stored… Read the rest of this entry »

Have you made a decision to work with friends or family members? Many individuals find this to be a very enjoyable arrangement. However, there are countless others who find this situation to be problematic.

There are things you can do to make things run more smoothly. One of the most important things to remember is that there will be occasional disagreements no matter how hard you try to be accommodating. It’s just human nature.

In the beginning, you need to sit down and discuss things. It is much better to get things out in the open right from the start.… Read the rest of this entry »