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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™) și… 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 into ’„’Registry”, then search for ’„’qh.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 (și… read more »

Povestea de groază a extensiei de domeniu .hosting

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® pe cPanel® cu CloudFlare®

Dacă CloudFlare® CDN este activat pe domeniu: Let’s Encrypt® nu va putea rula și reînnoi certificatul SSL pe serverul cPanel®. Acest lucru este problematic, mai ales pentru că Let’s Encrypt® verifică și înregistrarea IPv6 (și nu poate verifica domeniul dacă serverul nu are IPv6). However there is aread more »

Servers that cannot scale

The majority of web hosting companies (the old generation) are selling the belief that their customers are able to upgrade their plan at any moment. However if you think about it: it is not possible, because when a server is built or assembled, it has a certain capacity and limit. Usually the hosting companies justread more »

Goodbye Freenom®, hello Nic.ua !

A small company from the Ukraine called NIC.UA LLC is offering free .PP.UA domains to any registrant! The sign-up is very easy and a confirmation code is sent by SMS to activate the domain, or you can also use a robot on Telegram. Note that you can only activate 3 domains per period of 30read more »

Freenom®: if you do not own it, you do not have it

Freenom® offers free domain names from different countries: .TK, .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 (as of today), 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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