Dedicated CPUs over the years: There's improvement, and then there's this
A few hundred dollars a month is worth about 100x as much as it used it be.
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.
SiteHost expands bare metal options, adds NVIDIA GPUs
New servers from SiteHost include some incredibly cost-effective Ryzen 9s, and a new GPU Hosting range featuring NVIDIA A40 and A100 GPUs.
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.