If you rely on WordPress scheduled tasks, be aware that your site needs a regular stream of visits for those tasks to run. This can be a problem with development or staging sites, or on live sites that get very little traffic. The Problem There’s no automatic way to for your web site to create system […]
Network Monitoring – How Not To Cry Wolf
Network monitoring is important. When things break, they need to be fixed, so keeping a watchful eye on all network elements at all times is critical. There’s a hidden issue in network monitoring that often gets missed, especially by the less experienced. Monitoring a complex network can generate large amounts of information in a short […]
800,000 Files Tends To Be A Bad Idea
Another one that will seem to many like “programming 101″, but warrants talking about anyway. Here’s a helpful tip for you. Do not allow any folder on your Windows server(s) to contain 800,000 files. In the last two weeks we’ve been attempting to support a customer with a Windows server that is having a very […]
The Dog Ate My RAID Array
There have been many times over the years when we’ve had to call a customer to explain that their co-located server has crashed and won’t boot due to what appears to be a disk failure. Sometimes, the customer will inform us that this is impossible. Why? Because the server has RAID, so a disk failure […]
Why Your Firewall Might Be Useless Against a DDoS Attack
So you’ve spent some money on a shiny new firewall, and you have it mounted nicely in the rack right next to your ethernet switch(es) and DSL/cable modem. You’re all set, right? Well, maybe not. A company here on Long Island ran into trouble last week when the website they are hosting on a server […]