Managing web hosting operations can be challenging, especially as businesses grow and customer expectations continue to rise. From server maintenance and security management to troubleshooting technical issues, handling every aspect of web hosting internally demands significant time, expertise, and resources. For many businesses and hosting providers, outsourcing web hosting support has become a practical solution that allows teams to focus on core business activities while ensuring reliable technical performance. At the same time, building and launching websites has never been easier. With accessible domain services, advanced hosting platforms, and powerful website builders, thousands of new websites go live every day. As the number of online businesses rapidly increases, the web hosting industry continues to expand, creating intense competition among hosting …
In older days applications were performed totally different from today’s world they were working fragile, slow, and lacked automation. Developers would install the packaged software manually with the help of file transfer programs, and application code deployed on the servers. The servers had a name and tags when a server went down, everybody struggled to resolve the problem and bring business back online. New releases take some time to roll out, and businesses could afford minutes or even an hour of downtime. Due to the heavy demands for faster, highly available applications increased the things that changed the businesses had one choice it comes with more rapid innovation with frequent software releases. In modern days the container technologies like Docker, …
SNI ( Server Name Identification) allows you to host multiple SSL certificates on a single IP address. Although, hosting several sites on a single virtual private server is possible with the use of virtual hosts, providing separate SSL certificates for each site traditionally required separate IP addresses. The process has now been simplified through the use of Server Name Indication (SNI), which sends a site visitor the certificate that matches the requested server name. Requirements to setup Multiple SSL To install Nginx: Make sure that SNI is enabled in the server Set up Process 1. Create the SSL certificate Directory For easy understanding, I will be working to create a server that hosts both example.com and example.org. The SSL certificate …
A command-line diagnostics tool for GCP users is called gcpdiag. It identifies and assists in resolving frequent problems in Google Cloud Platform projects. Based on the Google Cloud Support team’s troubleshooting expertise, it is used to test applications against a variety of best practices and common errors. Contributions are welcome for gcpdiag, an open-source programm! Please be aware that this is a community effort rather than a Google product that is officially supported. What are the Pre-requisites for gcpdiag? The following are necessary for gcpdiag to function properly: 1. Permissions The following roles (both of them) must be granted at the very least to the credentials you use with gcpdiag: Viewer of the project being inspected Service Usage Consumer on the …
MariaDB is considered as the fork(replica) of MySQL database. It was developed by the same developer as that of MySQL except for the fact MariaDB offers many more additional functionalities to the MySQL engine. PostgreSQL is an alternative to MySQL working on ORDBMS (Object-Relational Database Management System). As a database server, its primary function is to store data, securely and supporting best practices, and retrieve it later, as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network. The said architecture has many advantages over MySQL in areas of performance and redundancy. MongoDB is a cross-platform document-oriented database. Its a specialized DB build on non-relational document store architecture similar …
Phusion Passenger is a free web server and application server with support for Ruby, Python and Node.js. It is designed to integrate into the Apache HTTP Server or the Nginx web server, but also has a mode for running standalone without an external web server. Phusion Passenger supports Unix-like operating systems, and is available as a gem package, as a tarball, or as native Linux packages. Passenger and “Rails server” The Ruby on Rails framework provides a built-in server tool, which can be accessed with the ‘rails server‘ command. The “rails server” is not an application server by itself, but just a small wrapper that launches your application in an application server. This is why people do not use “rails …
Ansible is a multipurpose automation tool used for workflow automation and configuration management. With the Infrastructure as Code approach, teams define and manage system configurations by specifying the packages, versions, and services that must run on a system. This method ensures consistent environments and simplifies infrastructure management.Automating workflows could involve anything from deploying software to setting up cloud infrastructure. Ansible is a Python application that uses SSH to run commands on many devices. Ansible is agentless, which makes learning how to use it much simpler. SSH access and Python installed on the essential machines are all that is required. Ansible maps a collection of hosts (from “inventory”) to clearly defined roles using declarative YML “playbooks.” What is Ansible Semaphore? Uses, …
AWS Organizations help you to centrally manage, grow and scale your AWS resources. Using AWS organization allows programmatically creating new AWS accounts, allocating resources, group accounts to organize your workflows, and simplifying billing by using a single payment method for all of your accounts. AWS Organization Benefits AWS Organization Use Cases 1. Creation of AWS accounts and categorize workloads using groups: Automate the creation of new AWS accounts, when you need to quickly launch a new work environment, auditing and touchless infrastructure deployments. For example, Easy to create separate groups to categorize development and production accounts, use AWS CloudFormation StackSets to provision services and permissions to each group. 2. Share Common resources across accounts: It makes it easy for you …
Docker Compose is an application definition and execution tool for multi-container docker applications. Using Docker Compose, you can connect all the isolated containers as a single service. The containers are still segregated, but they can interact with one another. A YAML file makes it possible to configure the services of your application. Then, with one command, you create and start all services from your configuration. With Docker Compose, you get the benefits of single host deployment, great security, and ease of set up & configuration which leads to really high productivity and efficiency. What is Compose file? A Compose file is a YAML file named: (Default location: ./docker-compose.yml) It defines: Each service definition configures how a container is built, connected, …
In Linux, everything running on the system is a process. Whether it’s a system service, background daemon, or user application, each runs in its own virtual address space. Since Linux is a multitasking operating system, multiple processes run simultaneously. Understanding how to monitor and manage these processes is a core skill for Linux administrators. This guide explains: What Is a Process in Linux? A process is a running instance of a program. When you execute a command, Linux: Every active task in Linux – including system services operates as a process. Types of Processes in Linux Linux systems run several categories of processes: 1. Interactive Processes Example: 2. Batch Processes 3. Daemon Processes Examples: Daemons typically have no associated terminal …