How to speedtest your website

Posted on 30 May, 201518 August, 2017

Website owners should be aware of Google started changing websites ranking based on pages loading time back in 2010. Google uses a multitude of factors to determine how to rank search engine results. Typically, these factors are either related to the content of a web page itself (the text, its URL, the titles and headers, etc.) or were measurements of the authenticity of the website itself (age of the domain name, number and quality of inbound links, etc.). However, in 2010, Google did something very different. Google announced website speed would begin having an impact on search ranking. Now, the speed […]

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How to benchmark your website for heavy traffic

Posted on 29 May, 201518 August, 2017

Having your website ready to stand for heavy traffic spike could be very important, especially if your business is running promotional campaigns or sends many promotional emails. But how could you ensure your website could stand this spike? Fortunately, there are free tools available that help you to stress your website and estimate how many visitors it can handle. During our daily managed hosting duties, we especially like the tool loader.io. The loader.io has free account option and allows to test one website. When we benchmark client’s server before releasing it to the customer, we ensure it can handle at […]

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How to resolve NexentaStor 3.1.1 installation problem

Posted on 30 March, 201518 August, 2017

We’ve been having problems installing NexentaStor 3.1.1 on one of our storage servers using two Kingston quad-channel USB drives. The idea was to maximise storage capacity and utilise all available HDD bays, while running NexentaStor off two mirrored high-speed USB drives. The problem we encountered was that installation hang on “Updating Boot Archive” message. It was quite surprising that we were unable to find a workable solution, while this issue was extremely easy to resolve. The Dell PowerVault x300 server we used (this step will be very similar to any Dell PowerVault or PowerEdge server) by default emulates USB drives […]

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Recommendations for POODLE: SSLv3.0 vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566)

Posted on 3 February, 201518 August, 2017

RedyHost security team has been made aware of a vulnerability in the SSLv3.0 protocol, which has been assigned CVE-2014-3566. All implementations of SSLv3.0 are affected. What Is POODLE? POODLE stands for Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption. This vulnerability allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to decrypt ciphertext using a padding oracle side-channel attack. More details are available in the upstream OpenSSL advisory. Netscape originally developed Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to be a means of protecting data as it was sent across a network. Version 1 was never released, and when SSLv2 came out in 1995, there were a number of flaws that made […]

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Security recommendations around the Heartbleed vulnerability

Posted on 3 February, 201518 August, 2017

On April 7, 2014 the OpenSSL Project released an update to address a critical vulnerability known as Heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160). This vulnerability, which affects multiple sites across the Internet, could be remotely exploited to leak sensitive information. Actions by RedyHost RedyHost has reviewed all of our sites and applications, and we have determined that the few of our sites, including the Client Area https://www.redyhost.com.au/cc/clientarea.php, cPanelhttps://my.redyhost.net.au:2083 were vulnerable to this issue. This has been patched immediately, and we have replaced our SSL certificates. Changing your password RedyHost has no evidence that any customer data (including user names and passwords) was exposed. However, if […]

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