blogul Quantum Hosting®

AlibabaCloud DirectMail: how to lift the 5 domains limit

iunie 28, 2023

AlibabaCloud provides a DirectMail service (equivalent to Amazon SES)! SMTP or API can be used to send either batched emails (mailing-list) or triggered emails (order confirmation, ticket system, etc). It is low cost: the unit price is $0.29 USD per 1,000 messages with discounts available from 50,000 messages per month. But the cherry on the… read more »

Meta Inc. (formerly Facebook) filed a lawsuit against Freenom

martie 28, 2023

On March 3rd, 2023: Meta Inc. (formerly Facebook) filed a lawsuit against Freenom for trademark infringement, facilitating cybercrimes, false designation of origin. This is due to the tsunami of phishing websites using the .TK, .ML, .GQ, .GA, and .CF ccTLDs. The lawsuit reveals a pattern to abuse Fortune 500’s trademarks by concealing WHOIS details (despite… read more »

The best hosting for Laravel

martie 13, 2023

Laravel needs full control of all PHP settings and parameters. In other words: if your web hosting environment is too restrictive, and Laravel will not run and produce errors such as: or It is extremely important to have an unrestricted web hosting company for your needs. At Quantum Hosting® we thrive at serving you.

The danger of a custom 404-page

martie 13, 2023

One customer running a single WordPress was using a 4x vCPUs instance on Amazon AWS®. But the CPU and load usage were so high, with no apparent reasons (the number of visitors was reasonable). However: each 404 triggered a huge CPU and bandwidth consumption! A test was conducted and the 404 was replaced by a… read more »

The word is out: companies are starting to leave Amazon AWS® and Google Cloud®

martie 13, 2023

In a must-read article by David Heinemeier Hansson, the founder of Basecamp explains: Why they’re leaving the cloud. Quantum Hosting® has been very vocal about the so-called “promise of simplification” while Amazon AWS® is blocking the port 25 for any new customer… Not having the simple ability to send emails from your own EC2 instance… read more »

Amazon AWS® bad discovery

martie 13, 2023

This is the CPU monitoring usage on an EC2 instance in Ireland (t3a.xlarge). Two things to notice:-the graph has an average of 40% of white background (it does not reach the full 400% CPU height)-there was a maximum of 46% CPU steal – which is the red part (this should not be above 2%).In total:… read more »

The circus at Amazon AWS® continues!

martie 13, 2023

Amazon AWS® blocks outgoing port 25 on any new EC2® instance, and requires to use Amazon SES®. So you enable Amazon SES® and this is what they reply instantly: In which world emails’ permission needs to be granted? Isn’t email a basic internet service? Is it something so spectacular at Amazon AWS®? The idiots that… read more »

Limitele (si pericole) de YunoHost

martie 13, 2023

YunoHost is a great applications manager! It is not only free but also very fast: in a few clicks you have installed a complete application! It is becoming an increasing competitor to Softaculous and even WHM/cPanel. If you are an application developer: you can reach new customers and new users by deploying your software through… read more »

Amazon FBA este și mai rău

martie 13, 2023

Amazon is in free fall, it is not only their AWS service, but their seller central apparatus too: Here we go, a billion dollar company and they are not able to give a proper link: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/mario/inpvMeeting/appointment/global?mons_sel_locale=en_US returns: What else needs to be said?… Oh yes: it takes an average of 20 days to become a… read more »

Călătoria pentru a închide un cont Amazon AWS®

martie 13, 2023

Even if you close your Amazon AWS® account: your EC2 reserved instances will continue to be billed (that is nice!). However you can register as a seller on the Amazon AWS® marketplace to sell your EC2 reserved instances. There is a requirement for this: to enter a US bank account. This can be achievable: especially… read more »