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CloudLinux OS is too slow

CloudLinux OS has been invented to throttle (down) the speed of a server, by limiting the maximum CPU amount an account can use. This is was relevant before (when PHP-FPM did not exist) but today it became completely useless. Overall it is even worse: the CPU time used by CloudLinux OS is even slowing downread more »

Become your own hosting company

Recently we advised a customer whom was paying US$600 per month for: a server hosting 1 single website (although very popular), and a newsletter with 50,000 subscribers. This was a huge amount: US$7,200 per year! Our solution was very simple: the customer had to sign-up to a cloud provider (Amazon AWS® or Google Cloud™) και… read more »

Own your own server

Shared hosting is great to start and reduce the costs of hosting: you share a server with many other customers, and each customer is paying a slice of the server. However at some stage your website becomes so: big, successful, and popular that you have outgrown a shared hosting service. This is when you canread more »

Get free my.qh.ie subdomains !

We offer free subdomains of: my.qh.ie ! To get your free .IE subdomain, simply register here. Once registered, go intoRegistry”, then search forqh.ieand pick up the name you want! 👍 You will then be able to: managed DNS or NS servers, make redirects, or cloak your website. It is a great (και… read more »

The horror story of the .hosting domain extension

The “.hostingdomain extension was launched on November 25, 2014 by Uniregistry® with a starting price of US$30. In August 2017: the domain price increased to US$300 (+1000%)… While this case is extreme, it is not isolated, the same company (Uniregistry®) increased the price of other extensions: .AUDIO from $9.33 to $100.00.BLACKFRIDAY from $26.67 toread more »

Let’s Encrypt® on cPanel® with CloudFlare®

If the CloudFlare® CDN is activated on the domain: Let’s Encrypt® will be unable to run and renew the SSL certificate on the cPanel® server. This is problematic, especially because Let’s Encrypt® checks the IPv6 record too (and is not able to verify the domain if the server has no IPv6). However there is aread more »

Αντίο Freenom®, γειά σου Nic.ua !

A small company from the Ukraine called NIC.UA LLC is offering free .PP.UA domains to any registrant! Η εγγραφή είναι πολύ εύκολη και ένας κωδικός επιβεβαίωσης αποστέλλεται με SMS για την ενεργοποίηση του domain, or you can also use a robot on Telegram. Σημειώστε ότι μπορείτε να ενεργοποιήσετε μόνο 3 domains per period of 30read more »

Freenom®: αν δεν σας ανήκει, Δεν το έχετε

Freenom® offers free domain names from different countries: .ΤΚ, .ML, .CF, .GQ, and .GA. Unfortunately: they can suspend any free domain at any time, even without providing you a reason. It is strongly advised to move away from them as soon as possible. If you move server or have unexpected downtime: your domain will beread more »

The new image format: WebP

A customer just deployed the new image format: WebP. Unfortunately: it is not supported by many browsers (από σήμερα), including the Apple desktops & devices using Safari. While the savings of file size is more than 20% against TinyPNG, the backward compatibility is really more important. So we will have have to wait some moreread more »

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