Our guaranteed network and hardware uptime is 99.95% for Managed Secure VPS customers and 99.9% for Cloud VPS and cPanel shared hosting customers. Monthly uptime statistics breakdown January 2015: 100% February 2015: 100% March 2015: 100% April 2015: 100% May 2015: 100% June 2015: 100% July 2015: 100% August 2015: 100% September 2015: 100% October 2015: 100% November 2015: 100% December 2015: 100% 100% 2015 average uptime
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Recently we began monitoring increasing number of WordPress xmlrpc attacks, where a large number of passwords is submitted for user “admin” via xmlrpc.php file. Our security system blocks such attempts for all Managed Hosting clients or cPanel with Account Shield protectio, so they do not even hit WordPress websites. However, WordPress websites running elsewhere may be vulnerable. Below we publish one of the lists of passwords submitted as XML POST request, make sure your “admin” user password is not one of those. The XML file submitted typically consists of around 1000 passwords, making usual brute force attack a more efficient […]
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RedyHost team is always listening to customers in order to better understand their needs. After studying a lot of feedback and doing some analysis on use patterns over time of our Cloud VPS offering, the team saw an opportunity to provide a new storage option that would be well-suited to data that is accessed infrequently, such as static files or database backups. As part of our analysis and review, we have doubled the default storage space (HDD) for the entire Cloud VPS products from 50GB to 100GB. This increase would allow Cloud VPS customers to store necessary data backups more frequently and store […]
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Throughout 2015, RedyHost deployed a number of techniques and technologies to speed up websites loading for our customers, increase security and optimise customer websites even for mobile devices. As the result, our customers’ websites load 2x times* faster, save around 37%* of bandwidth, making up to 50% fewer connections for static files loading and deliver optimised images even for mobile devices. We found that a web performance and security company CloudFlare applies similar techniques and technologies to achieve great page compression, increase loading speeds and security. CloudFlare incorporates many unique technologies to achieve even greater speed improvements plus DDoS protection. Moreover, […]
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One of the benefits of having the Secure Account option for your hosting is that it protects your website against new vulnerabilities discovered/disclosed for the applications you use. For example, Drupal 7.38 came out this morning with critical security updates, which leaves your Drupal 7 website vulnerable until you apply the security update. The Virtual Just In Time security is a set of firewall rules that filter all traffic received on your website. It detects and stops any attempt to exploit those vulnerabilities at the server level so that your website stays protected! We still recommend to apply security patches for […]
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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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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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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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