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Announcing CloudVPS Management Console 1.6 release

Today we released the next update to our CloudVPS Management Console, this update features: Refactoring of XenApi to facilitate the upcoming release of Drupal 8 module. Bootstrap template implementation. Major update to the user interface, to make it easier to manage and backup/restore CloudVPS. Bug fixes and performance improvements. Get RedyHost™ CloudVPS today for your next mission critical project. Get your blazing fast Cloud VPS NOW! Check out the updated screenshots of the management console 1 2

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add-network-route-xenserver

How to add custom network route in Citrix XenServer 6.1+

To add a custom route in Citrix XenServer 6.1 or higher, execute the following commands: network interface must exist prior running these commands. Refer to XenServer configuration guide to create and configure network interface(s). find network UUID: xe network-list xe network-param-set uuid= other-config:static-routes=10.0.0.0/24/10.1.2.2   (in our case we have our XenServer with xenbr1 interface configured with IP 10.1.2.3 and we need it to access network 10.0.0.0/24 via custom route 10.1.2.2) run “route -n” to confirm our custom route is in the list reboot XenServer to confirm the static route is persistent after reboot (run “route -n” again and confirm the […]

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Drush 8 in cPanel

Announcing support for Drush 8 in all cPanel plans

Great news to our Drupal 8 customers. Drush 8 support has arrived in our cPanel plans. Drush 8 for cPanel. Just SSH into your cPanel account and execute drush status Enjoy Drush 8 for cPanel Over many years RedyHost team was providing support to Drupal customers. We started with Drupal 5, now Drupal 8 is out and we provide unbeatable Drupal 8 support. Many of our customers were asking for drush version required for Drupal 8. We now made drush 8 available for our cPanel customers. Drush 8 for cPanel could be accessed via SSH, along with Drupal Console (just run `drupal` command). To […]

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cPanel with PHP 7

Announcing cPanel PHP 7 support

PHP 7 has been long-time rumoured high-performance PHP to come, with updated Zend opcache module. The biggest feature of cPanel PHP 7 is the performance improvements due to major work on its Zend Engine, which will be Zend Engine 3 with PHP 7. Thanks to the competition from Facebook’s HHVM, PHP.net has needed to step up their speed game big time, which they’re managing to achieve with PHP 7.0. As of today, RedyHost announces support of cPanel PHP 7 with our Secure cPanel hosting plans. cPanel with PHP 7 available New customers – just get your high performance cPanel hosting account with […]

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Drupal 8 stress test using HHVM and PHP 7

Drupal 8 Stress Test. Round 3

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

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

– 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

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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