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Object oriented programming and object relational mapping go hand in hand.  If you know OOP, then ORM is a way to use database tables as objects. A simple ORM example would be: Instead of $pdo->prepare('INSERT INTO user (name, address, phone) VALUES (?,?,?)'); ... The code is: $user = new...

A little swap is usually a good thing, it keeps stale data out of your RAM which leaves it open to handle active processes. Say you start a process that needs a lot of RAM, if your RAM was full of stale data, the process would have to wait for the memory to be swapped to disk before it was able...

Right now there are two major issues I see with the environment.  Reducing (power usage) and re-using (older equipment).  As you stated, they are conflicting ideals in technology because most of the time, newer equipment requires less input (power) and generates more output. I guess the...

Remember when the Constitution, the supreme law of the land, only took up a few pages.  Sad that each new bill passed in Congress has to be hundreds of pages long.

You do realize, you haven't provided any real information that would help to resolve the issue you're seeing.  No error messages, not what changes were made, etc. Seems to be like you should be using a managed VPS and let the provider or a system admin handle any system maintenance.

Just my opinion as a customer and provider over the past decade, I've never been fond of the unlimited bandwidth statement.   Unmetered possibly, but then you should also clarify somewhere what the expected usage is.  For instance, you're obviously not going to allow 30TB of outbound transfer...

Yeah, you can read the definitions here: https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html The reason the yellow button says Latest Stable is because they consider all non -rc "stable".  The stable line itself is 3.18 though.   Mainline is fine for development and desktop but I wouldn't run it on a...

It's a little confusing with all the names they throw around.  There is mainline and there is stable.  3.19 is still mainline meaning there are still new features going into it.  3.18 is stable meaning only fixes will be applied.

Not necessarily.  Depends on what you need.  Both 2.6.32 and 3.2 are LTS and are still supported and stable by the Linux community.  RHEL6 2.6.32 will still see backports and security fixes until 2020 since they extended their support to 10 years. Only depends on if you need something that is...

ECC is usually based on parities.  So this would be a similar implementation.  That is what the P stands for on ECC memory modules. 

What are some others?  I've never heard of anything other than dual parity.   I know there is distributed parity and dedicated parity but other than that I don't see any other way of doing a RAID6 other than calculating parities. Distributed parity meaning parities are distributed across all...

Scanners don't know what page is used in an application and what isn't.  Which is why I suggested creating a fake directory if you insist on running a honeypot. Protecting with a honeypot is interesting but realistically you should make sure your application doesn't have a vulnerability to take...

Interesting.  In my opinion, this would be better off on an unused page then if it is to honeypot scanners.  If it is for scanners, there isn't a need to include it on an actually used page, just setup a fake directory with an index.php or something and log attempts to that page.

Looks interesting.  I'm curious why you would need to display an error to "log hacking attempts".  This is obviously just an error showing one of your queries is using an invalid syntax, most likely with LIMIT in the wrong place.   As a developer myself, there should be no reason for you to...

Using that CPU at 100% would still generate enough heat that you'd need proper airflow that a 1U fan at ~2000rpm probably won't provide. The new Atom C2750 would give you close to the same level of performance of an i3 and 1/3 the heat.

That fan/heatsink isn't going to be very quiet, especially under load as it would have to run at 5000rpm to move air.  The best bet for a quiet 1U server would be an atom and ssd with a passive heatsink and maybe a low rpm 40mm fan.  You don't need much air movement for an atom and an ssd as the...

I actually just posted this as a guide: The number of stripes doesn't make much of a difference in this case.  Only the number of drives in each mirror.  Therefore a 6-drive RAID10 would be much more reliable ONLY if they ran each RAID1 with 3 disks, but that is unusual since it would mean...

There are some common misconceptions on RAID levels with their level of redundancy, etc.   I thought I would write a quick guide with some information on them. RAID0 Striped data.  There is no level of redundancy, any loss of a drive will result in a loss of the array.   Striped data incurs no...

To be honest, there isn't a big difference between RAID1 and RAID10 in terms of redundancy.  RAID10 is just two RAID1s striped.  Losing two drives in the same mirror will destroy your data in both instances (assuming you are using 2 drive mirrors). RAID6 and RAID7 are the safest because  they...

You must have had bad luck or something recent maybe?  We used Colostore's IP addresses for ~5 years without any issues.  As for the network.  Cogent, Internap, and Level3 are all on site.   However, Level3 and Internap backhaul all traffic to Chicago.   For Cogent, they have an actual South...