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  1. Minmeo

    Do you tell a customer your server specs if he asks?

    Thank you everyone for all the responses. I understand better now.
  2. Minmeo

    Do you tell a customer your server specs if he asks?

    Hi I am wondering if a customer submits a ticket to you for sales and asks what the specs of the server is if you tell them or not. I asked one of my providers and was told they couldn't give me the exact specs and said only that they use genuine intel processors and use hardware raid10. I was...
  3. Minmeo

    Looks like 5 million Gmail Account info has been leaked

    You can check if your email was part of this here: https://isleaked.com/en.php
  4. Minmeo

    Wordpress alternatives?

    Thanks everyone. I remember I used a real simple one in the past that was sort of nice but I can not remember what it was named. I just wanted to know what everyone here uses if they do not use wordpress.
  5. Minmeo

    Coffee. What are you drinking and what would you recommend?

    I like the coffee from McDonalds. The iced coffee is good too. :)
  6. Minmeo

    Wordpress alternatives?

    Im looking for something I can use to host a small blog to post YouTube videos to. Wordpress is too big now and often a target of exploits, it has too many features for what I need. What is a good simple blog script that is in use today that is modern, fast and secure? Does not need to be fancy...
  7. Minmeo

    Testing disk speed... what is the best method?

    I know that people use the "dd command" to measure disk write speed but others say you should measure iops instead. What is the best way to test the disk speed for real world use of a database being read and written to?
  8. Minmeo

    cPanel certification?

    I want to one day work for a web hosting company and maybe even one day open my own. Though I am not ready yet, I am curious if anyone has there cPanel certificate from the website https://university.cpanel.net/ . Would a L1 certification be good enough to get a entry level job with a web host...
  9. Minmeo

    What skills do you look for in your employees?

    Thanks. This is an interesting industry and I hope to one day work in it. Does anyone have a cPanel certification? Do employers require that? I will continue to work on and break and fix my own servers for now but one day want to volunteer and gain experience and hopefully get a decent job...
  10. Minmeo

    Tool for checking my website load time for different areas of the world?

    Thanks everyone. I will check these out!
  11. Minmeo

    Tool for checking my website load time for different areas of the world?

    Hi there, I want to measure my website load time speed for different areas of the world. I am still developing the site but before I launch I think this would be good information to have. Does a tool like this exist? Please share if you know.
  12. Minmeo

    VPS failover?

    Thanks. I will setup some text VPS servers and try something out before going live. Does anyone have any more suggestions?
  13. Minmeo

    VPS failover?

    Hi there, I want to make it so that if one of my VPSes goes offline from one provider that another VPS from a different provider will produce the data for my website. I know it is possible but unsure if I can set it up. What do I need?
  14. Minmeo

    Any unique web hosts?

    There are a lot of providers here and on other forums, many use the same locations and even same data centres as others and sell the same services with the same software and setups. Is there any web hosts that are doing anything different? I'm happy with my VPS providers but they all use the...
  15. Minmeo

    Fail2ban configuration...

    Any tips on fail2ban? I just installed on a vps that I will use for a website soon and it is just the stock configuration now. Any advice on how to configure it would be great. Thanks.
  16. Minmeo

    Fastest hard-disk... post yours!

    root@srv:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 2.31474 s, 464 MB/s This is a ramnode ssd cached vps and it is the fastest I have for disks. What about you?
  17. Minmeo

    What do you think of Ghost (blogging platform)

    I think it looks clean but do not know why node.js should be used over PHP or if it matters. Never used it before so it is not clear to me.
  18. Minmeo

    How to have a VPS failover to another VPS if the first one goes down?

    Thank you everyone. I will look more into this and if I figure it out in a simple way I might try to write a howto and share it here! :)
  19. Minmeo

    Tips for optimizing apache in cpanel?

    Thank you for the responses. How is the nginx plugin? Litespeed costs money :( Any tips on how to optimize apache when building it with easy apache? So many options and checkboxes... 
  20. Minmeo

    Tips for optimizing apache in cpanel?

    There is a lot of options and I dont know what I am doing. I have a website that gets about 5,000 visits a day and I have a cPanel VPS and I want to optimize its apache for best performance. I have plenty of free memory so I think I can use limits to make it use more ram but be faster? I like...
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