Technical articles
Lessons from years of AWS cost management
Optimising AWS bills is never easy. Not even if, like our Product and Automation Lead, Ben, you've helped customers save thousands every month.
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.
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.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) available on VPS and VDS
The latest long-term support (LTS) release of Ubuntu is available for provisioning.
New Update Opens Up Our API
The SiteHost API is now easier to access, better documented, and ready for you to build great things.
Voice Search - What Is It & Is It Relevant (yet)?
You might have heard of the Amazon Echo or the Google Home. In this blog post we'll look at what Voice Assistants, and Voice Search, could mean for your business.