Scalability Blog

In an environment where a lot of servers share same NFS mount, keeping track of which server created or deleted a file is important.  By default, NFS client configuration does not have an option for access logging in Linux distributions.  To mitigate this situation, you can use a utility called rpcdebug.
To see a list of all supported modules and flags:
# rpcdebug -vusage: rpcdebug [-v] [-h] [-m module] [-s flags…|-c flags…]
set or cancel …

VirtualBox is one of the easiest virtualization platforms in use today.  With graphical user interface, cross-platform support, and comprehensive documentation online, it is also one of the most obvious choices for a developer.  So how do you scale this virtual machine from your workstation to a development server?

The process is relative straightforward and involves simple steps:
 
Step 1: Locate the VDI file’s location from Virtual …

Fellow nerds!  If there’s anything that has a tendency to work up linux guys, it’s text editors.  And in general, people tend to traditionally gravitate towards two camps: camp emacs or camp vi.   While other newer software exists, such as nano, pico, or joe – it’s important to be comfortable using vi and emacs.  vi will be available pretty much everywhere you need it, and emacs, when installed, is intensely featureful.   Besides, …

Nginx, a web server exported from chilly Russia, was officially found to be the 2nd most popular webserver for active websites in June of 2012 by Netcraft. In terms of overall marketshare, the study placed it third, behind Apache and Microsoft IIS. However, considering that the server’s first public release was in 2006, the software’s growth has been nothing short of exponential.
Nginx is now the official web server for over 60 …

Yes, there are a lot of options in the crowded managed hosting space. However, if you are considering a managed hosting provider, there are few important questions that you will need to answer:
1) Are they reliable and stable?
2) What is the level of support that I will be receiving?
3) Will my site be able to scale effectively while experiencing maximum performance?
Sometimes, these question can be difficult to answer and that is why we’ve gone …

Why use Load Balancing to Speed Up, Protect and Grow your Hosted Website
At its most basic form Load Balancing allows you to distribute requests to multiple dedicated servers. This can be web requests for your popular blog, ad network, or social media site or a different protocol like memcache or MySQL. Server Load Balancing automatically provides 2 benefits – increased capacity, and high availability. For increased capacity requests are now sent to an unlimited …

Wowza Media Server allows static and live video streaming to any mobile device including iOS, Android, Blackberry and tablets in addition to traditional Windows, Apple and Linux desktop clients.
It is the industry leader for delivering video with features like automatic bandwidth detection, RTMP push publishing, dynamic load balancing, cross platform compatibility and the most scalable high performance video delivery solution.
The largest Wowza Media Server hosting deployment that we’ve setup consisted of 32 servers, …

We’ve have been using Nginx server for nearly 5 years now at ServerStack with amazing results. Our favorite implementation is something we’ve nicknamed “Apachix” which is a Nginx reverse proxy to an Apache server. This provides a transparent configuration that it requires no code changes to your application, allows you to continue using .htaccess files and delivers all of the performance boosts that are associated with Nginx.
Recently we ran a set …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — January 26, 2012 — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that ServerStack, a provider of managed hosting services, will continue to leverage its presence within the Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers to deliver high-end managed hosting services including virtualization, storage, load balancing, VPN and CDN. Since joining Platform Equinix™ in 2008, ServerStack has drawn upon the standardization, consistency and …

ServerStack, a managed hosting provider, announced today its installation of Internap’s Performance IP™ service. “With our customers’ demand for faster performance and their sensitivity to even small latency fluctuations for their streaming media services, Internap and its route-optimized global IP network was a great fit,” said Ben Uretsky, CEO at ServerStack.
Internap’s Performance IP service optimizes Internet traffic by leveraging the company’s patented Managed Internet Route Optimizer™ (MIRO) technology – which dynamically determines the best path for traffic across multiple Internet …