(Jul 3) Update to 2.14 This updates ensures that the VNC server used for debugging is bound to the local interfaces. Previously the VNC server might have been available globally depending on the system’s firewall settings.
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(Jul 3) Fabian Henneke discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the password change form of GOsa, a web-based LDAP administration program. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
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| Rank | Performance Graph | OS | Outage hh:mm:ss |
Failed Req% |
DNS | Connect | First byte |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | www.choopa.com | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.312 | 0.009 | 0.237 | 0.238 |
| 2 | Bigstep | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.004 | 0.251 | 0.074 | 0.150 | 0.150 |
| 3 | Hyve Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.004 | 0.185 | 0.077 | 0.155 | 0.155 |
| 4 | CWCS | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.004 | 0.300 | 0.085 | 0.163 | 0.163 |
| 5 | www.dinahosting.com | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.004 | 0.309 | 0.090 | 0.182 | 0.182 |
| 6 | GoDaddy.com Inc | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.009 | 0.528 | 0.005 | 0.020 | 0.020 |
| 7 | www.viawest.com | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.009 | 0.488 | 0.009 | 0.266 | 0.266 |
| 8 | EveryCity | SmartOS | 0:00:00 | 0.009 | 0.239 | 0.072 | 0.378 | 0.378 |
| 9 | Swishmail | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.009 | 0.255 | 0.086 | 0.171 | 0.172 |
| 10 | One.com | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.013 | 0.359 | 0.058 | 0.175 | 0.175 |
The most reliable hosting company website in June 2018 belonged to choopa.com, it was the only site to respond to all of Netcraft’s requests. Choopa.com offers cloud hosting, dedicated hosting and colocation in its own primary facility in Piscataway, New Jersey as well as smaller facilities in Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Tokyo. The website has achieved an uptime of 100% over the past 21 months, and a 99.98% uptime since Netcraft began monitoring the website in December 2009.
The next four hosting company websites only failed to respond to a single request each during June. The lower average connect time for BigStep‘s website, taking an average of 74ms, grants it second place above Hyve Managed Hosting, CWCS and dinahosting.com. Bigstep offers “bare metal” cloud hosting from datacentres in the UK, USA and Romania. The service claims to provide the flexibility of cloud hosting but without the associated overhead and performance reductions of virtualization.
Third placed Hyve Managed Hosting‘s website has appeared in the top ten 11 times in the past 12 months, the most of any monitored website. Netcraft has never observed an outage for www.hyve.com, giving it a 100% uptime record since Netcraft began monitoring it in June 2016.
Eight of the top ten most reliable hosting company websites used the Linux operating system in June. FreeBSD and SmartOS both make a single appearance to complete the top ten.
Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of around thirty leading hosting providers’ sites. The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.
From a customer’s point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on hosting companies’ own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why we choose to rank our table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage. In the event the number of failed requests are equal then sites are ranked by average connection times.
Information on the measurement process and current measurements is available.
Time is money, as the saying goes. But money is also time if you think about it. Which means it’s time to save both time and money by investing in proper server management solutions. You could be saving hours every week if you just start using the right software solutions. Let’s have a look at why using server management solutions are a good idea.
1. Consider Server Management Price
We’re among cloud price wars and falling prices for virtual private server (VPS) services around the world. Therefore bringing the monthly fee for a modest VPS to about the same price as a cup of coffee. In simple terms, the raw underlying hardware and network connection has basically become a commodity.
Investing in value-added management software adds capabilities and efficiency savings on top of that too. See examples of server management pricing.
2. Avoid Server Sprawl
Virtualization offers ease of deployment, but this can become a bit of a problem scenario for IT managers. The faster that servers can be provisioned, the more it seems they’re in demand. And that quickly leads to too many virtual machines.
IT managers and industry watchers say we need to control virtual server sprawl. And this requires the same processes and auditing that we use in physical server deployments. In order to ensure we provision only the exact amount of machines we need.
Industry watchers suggest adopting a server life-cycle management process. One where we track the status and purpose of a virtual or physical server from creation to retirement. If we fail to curb lax deployment habits, it can make challenges around managing virtual machines, like patch management, worse.
Policy-based management and inventory tools can help IT stay on top of the number of servers and help IT to be disciplined about putting processes in place. All this in order to prevent virtual sprawl from corrupting the deployment’s success.
3. Spend less time setting up servers
Tests show that using server management software compared to traditional, manual methods takes less time and fewer steps to perform. Particularly when we’re doing a basic setup of a new server, viewing the server health, and viewing the server inventory.
Whether you’re adding new servers to your data center or refreshing old ones, the new servers need a careful setup. Because we need to ensure correct functionality and network access. Getting through this process quickly cuts down the time that your IT data managers have to spend doing it. And it can help the server reach a fast time to value.
4. View server logs effortlessly
Programs have generated logs for as long as they’ve existed. But with the advent of modern server and application software, logging has become a part of the IT management system. Good server management programs will make these logs easier to read, search and call up when needed.
Fast, efficient server management solutions for admins
Technology will continue to improve lives by making complex processes faster and easier. Server management solutions like Plesk can reduce the time IT data managers spend waiting. And instead allow them to apply their valuable skills to other tasks and projects for your company.
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