Tag: Hardware
Disaster Recovery And Why It Matters
Undead apocalypse. Random meteor drive. Electromagnetic pulse from the exact Sun. Or maybe basically a crashed hard push that has no data backup. But don’t forget volcanoes. Or vampires! These are usually just a few examples of things that could...
WP CLI: Install and Manage WordPress® on the Command Line
WordPress is incredibly straightforward to use with their intuitive graphical interface yet it’s not ideal relating to server administrators and hosting providers who manage scores of sites. WP-CLI (WordPress Command Line Interface) is undoubtedly a powerful tool the fact that...
Disk IO Errors: Troubleshooting on Linux Servers
Disk IO errors (input/output) issues are a common cause of poor performance on web hosting servers. Hard drives have speed limits, and if software tries to read or write too much data too quickly, applications and users are forced to...
How to Back Up and Restore MySQL® Databases in cPanel
Data that exist in one place barely exists at all. It’s a hardware failure or mistyped command away from disappearing completely. That’s a scary thought, considering business’ most valuable assets include data. Imagine recreating everything in your database from scratch!...
How To Survive a DDoS Attack
Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attacks can take any website offline. Even Google and GitHub, with their immense resources, struggle to stay online during a large attack. Even worse, anyone with a few dollars can launch one. If you host...
How To Fix “Error Establishing a Database Connection” in WordPress
The “Error establishing a database connection” message strikes fear in a WordPress users heart, prompting many a panicked support request. You try to load a page, but all you see is a white box with a mysterious error message. WordPress...
My Website is down, what next?
It’s happened to most of us, you just launched a marketing campaign and went to check your sales and your website is a blank white screen! If it hasn’t happened to you yet, read on. Hosting outages can send you into panic mode,...
Samsung Galaxy Fold take two
The Galaxy Fold comes in a nice box. It’s a thing I rarely, if ever, mention in product write-ups, because, if done right, shipping containers are generally the least interesting thing about a product. But Samsung, to its credit, has...
iPhone 11 Pro teardown reveals smaller logic board, larger battery
iFixit has disassembled Apple’s new iPhone models, which tells us more about the differences with last year’s phones. iFixit shot a live-stream video of the iPhone 11 Pro teardown and wrote a guide for the iPhone 11 Pro Max. The...
You can do it, robot! Watch the beefy, 4-legged HyQReal pull a plane
It’s not really clear just yet exactly what all these powerful, agile quadrupedal robots people are working on are going to do, exactly, but even so it never gets old watching them do their thing. The latest is an Italian...
A look at new power banks from OmniCharge and Fuse Chicken
When you’ve been doing this job long enough, you start to develop strange interests (though some might compellingly argue that strange interests are a prerequisite). Lately for me it’s been power banks. Quite possibly the least sexy product in all...
Top 5 Reasons To Choose WordPress® For Your Business
Inside 2021, consumers will depend even more on the web and social movie to solve problems and even buy products. If an important business isn’t on often the web, it’s basically disguised .. But what’s the best way to build...