Category Archives: Announcement

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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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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Free automated SEO tools from Attracta available in cPanel

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RedyHost now includes Attracta SEO tools free for our cPanel customers. Attracta SEO tools integrate into cPanel and allow single click XML sitemap creation and submission to leading search engines. When accessing the SEO tools in cPanel, the user’s registration and configuration is automated, which automatically adds the sitemap directive to the robots.txt file, factors in redirected domains, and allows customers to add additional free and paid services without having to manually modify their site. Attracta automates the updating of site components like robots.txt file by integrating with the user’s cPanel account and Apache to provide seamless site improvements without […]

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10GB Network increased data bandwidth and IOPS

Up to 120k IOPS with our upgraded 10GB storage network

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We began 2015 by upgrading our Cloud network. All our storage network, cards and servers were upgraded to utilise 10GB Fiber Optics connectivity. This upgrade improved storage backend performance tremendously, allowing RedyHost Cloud to eliminate bottlenecks and run more sophisticated and more frequent backups for our customer data. The 10GB network cards we use, provide traffic hardware offloading and optimisation, which results in faster transfers and better storage IOPS, that goes beyond simple bandwidth increase. In images above we include the result of our benchmarking test of the NAS environment, attached via the new 10GB link, comparing it to 1GB link […]

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Drupal 8 benchmarking results

Drupal 7.41 vs Drupal 8. RC2 benchmarking analysis

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In our previous blog post Making Drupal 8 Fly we benchmarked Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 with our preferred benchmarking tool loader.io. The point was to increase the number of visitors per second during the 1-minute test and to reach the point at which our VPS is unable to send successful responses without timeouts. Refer to the article to read more about our setup and our approach. More Drupal 8 Stress Test benchmarks available. During that test, we found such break point for Drupal 8 RC2 as 1.2K clients per second and provided benchmark results for Drupal 7 with the same 1.2K clients […]

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Automatic iOS mailbox setup in cPanel

Automatic iOS mailbox setup in cPanel

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The latest release of cPanel 11.48 brings a set of new features and improvements. Considering the amount of time we help our customers in setting up their iOS devices Mail, this improvement is a great achievement by the cPanel team. Users can automatically configure their cPanel email accounts on their iOS device by downloading a single file. To configure a mailbox on your iOS device, use your device to access cPanel, then navigate to Email accounts ->  Select an account -> click More, then Configure email client link.

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