Clever companies are leaving the public cloud
We see bare metal improving faster than cloud services. Market analysts see a US$500B opportunity.
International domain price hike 2023
Our least favourite annual event strikes again, as our provider of .com and other international domains raises prices.
Debian 12 (Bookworm) available on VPS and VDS
The latest Debian release, which will be supported for five years, is now an option on Linux VPS or Virtual Dedicated Servers.
Cloud Container upgrade to Ubuntu Jammy
Ubuntu Jammy is the latest LTS release. See how to schedule maintenance for managed Cloud Container servers or update your own unmanaged servers.
CentOS Linux and RHEL: Avoid the fallout
Things have gotten harder for all those servers and hosting platforms that need to get off CentOS soon.
Have you noticed how much faster the Cloud Container platform is?
A small Redis change has massively reduced the waiting time for many jobs on most Cloud Container servers.
How our data centre performed through Auckland’s extreme weather
Record-setting rainfall, gale-force winds and cyclones are going to challenge any infrastructure. Our data centre got through it all.
Python snakes its way into our newest Cloud Container image
Our newest prebuilt image for Cloud Containers brings Python + Miniconda to our most popular hosting platform.
Running Elementor Pro and WooCommerce? Update your plugins ASAP
All versions of Elementor Pro up to (and including) 3.11.6 allow users to escalate to WordPress admin access.
Improving the performance of your Laravel queues
While investigating slow servers, we discovered some common performance issues with Laravel queues. Here’s how to speed things up for your sites.
Better SSH Key management comes to Cloud Containers
Managing your Cloud Containers’ SSH keys just got easier - no more duplicates, and no more keys hidden from the Control Panel.
We blocked thousands of IPs from Azure, all because of one bot
A single bot with a cunning method of hiding behind multiple IP addresses from Azure has led us to go big on defence. Our Technical Director explains.