Monthly Archives: August 2016

Drupal 8 stress test using HHVM and PHP 7

Drupal 8 Stress Test. Round 3

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Drupal 8 release is coming this week, bringing some exciting times to our #Drupal8 optimised hosting in Australia! Earlier this month, we did production stress test of Drupal 8 RC2 to estimate if our High-Performance VPS hosting platform is ready for Drupal 8. As the result of previous benchmarks, we applied additional fine tuning to boost Drupal 8 front-end performance and these 2 benchmarks could be reviewed as Making Drupal 8 Fly and Drupal 7.41 vs Drupal 8 RC2 Benchmarking Analysis. PHP7 was able to outperform HHVM by serving 32.7% more responses in 33.3% less average response time. The outcome of our past benchmarks was that […]

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Smallpt and Apache tests from Phoronix Test Suite

High Performance Cloud VPS benchmarks by Phoronix Test Suite

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In February this year, we upgraded our cloud servers to the latest Intel Xeon E5-2687W CPU with DDR4 RAM. Following the upgrade, we decided to benchmark the performance of our new Cloud VPS platform and compare it to DigitalOcean and AWS. The server type/size used: RedyHost: Cloud 2 VPS, featuring 2CPUs and 2GB RAM, cost: A$26/mo US$19.68 DigitalOcean: droplet featuring 2CPUs and 2GB RAM, cost: US$20/mo AWS: m3.large instance, featuring 2CPUs and 7.5GB of RAM, cost: US$135/mo In all 3 clouds, all 3 servers run default Ubuntu 14.04 x64 bit template. All 3 servers used apt-get to install the Phoronix test suite. Need a Cloud […]

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Benchmarking Drupal 8

Making Drupal 8 fly

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– We posted a more recent blog article with more benchmarking and results analysis DRUPAL 7.41 VS DRUPAL 8. RC2 BENCHMARKING ANALYSIS – More Drupal 8 Stress Test benchmarks available. Drupal 8 RC2 is out and the official release of Drupal 8 is not too far away. As a hosting company that is officially supporting Drupal and offering Drupal optimised hosting, we thought it would be a must to get ready for the Drupal 8 launch in advance. Having enough time to do good fine tuning + independent performance testing of our Drupal 8 VPS offering, along with getting some numbers to estimate the performance and to […]

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PHP 7RC5 released, heating up Drupal 8 performance concerns

PHP 7RC5 released, heating up Drupal 8 performance concerns

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The PHP 7 has been updated to RC5 and is available with our cPanel hosting plans today. When ordering, make sure you select PHP Selector option during plan selection. PHP 7 shows significant performance increase with Drupal 8 or WordPress applications. Folks from Zend has refactored Opcache package, leading to significant increase the performance of some PHP applications. GET YOUR PHP7 HOSTING NOW

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CloudVPS Automated Snapshots management console allows to schedule automated backups of your entire server

Announcing automated snapshot backup policies

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Automate your server snapshot backups like never before. With the recently released feature Automated Snapshot Policies, it takes only few mouse clicks to automate your server backup, set and forget it. From that point on, our system will look after your server backups. So, when an unexpected happens, we’ve got it covered, it takes seconds to restore your entire server from a snapshot. Over the last weeks, we’ve been busy extending our VPS Management Console, that would allow you to easily automate your cloud server backup. We call it Automated Snapshot Policy, it allows to easily set your server backup frequency and […]

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Shellshock-bug

How to Protect your Server Against the Shellshock Bash Vulnerability

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On September 24, 2014, a GNU Bash vulnerability, referred to as Shellshock or the “Bash Bug”, was disclosed. In short, the vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code given certain conditions, by passing strings of code following environment variable assignments. Because of Bash’s ubiquitous status amongst Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X distributions, many computers are vulnerable to Shellshock; all unpatched Bash versions between 1.14 through 4.3 (i.e. all releases until now) are at risk. The Shellshock vulnerability can be exploited on systems that are running Services or applications that allow unauthorised remote users to assign Bash environment variables. […]

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Vagrant provision production servers

Use Vagrant to provision production stack in any Cloud VPS

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Vagrant has been widely adopted by many and has the variety of usages to streamline development and production server environments. In this article, we show how to use Vagrant to provision production or development environment to our SSD Cloud VPS. Before you begin, make sure you have the latest version of Vagrant installed running SSD Cloud VPS server working SSH access (username and password or SSH key available). 1. Setting up your local environment Installing managed servers plugin for vagrant from https://github.com/tknerr/vagrant-managed-servers. In the terminal, execute: vagrant plugin install vagrant-managed-servers 2. Configure your preferred environment in puphpet Make note of your operating system […]

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How we speed up customer website

How we speed up customer website 10x times without changing it

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Recently we optimised a Managed Secure hosting customer website tilkah.com.au and reduced page loading times from over 40 seconds per page down to under 4 seconds per page. It is important to note that the whole optimisation work was on the web server end, without changing the application itself. Tilkah is an Australia wide retailer for high quality luxe leather and jewellery pieces. The online store tilkah.com.au is built in WordPress and has several hundreds of products sold online. The challenge we faced was to deal with the lack of content optimisation on the front-end. The website was lacking CSS/JS files optimisation and compression, […]

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