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VPS vs Shared Hosting in 2011: Stop Sharing Your CPU With Strangers

· Georgi Dimitrov

Is your site crawling during peak hours? Shared hosting is a trap for growing businesses. We break down the technical differences, from kernel isolation to I/O wait times, and explain why upgrading to a VPS in Oslo is critical for performance and Norwegian compliance.

coolvds.com › Blog › Server Administration

OpenVZ vs. KVM/Xen: Why Your "Cheap" VPS is Actually Costing You Money

· CoolVDS Team

In the battle of virtualization technologies, OpenVZ offers density while KVM and Xen offer isolation. We dissect the 'user_beancounters' file, expose the risks of overselling, and explain why serious Norwegian businesses are migrating to hardware virtualization in 2011.

coolvds.com › Blog › Server Administration

Stop the Bloat: Migrating from mod_php to PHP-FPM on High-Performance Clusters

· CoolVDS Team

Is your Apache server capping out on RAM? It’s time to decouple. We explore how to implement the newly bundled PHP-FPM in PHP 5.3, tune process managers for traffic spikes, and leverage Nginx to handle concurrency without melting your hardware.

coolvds.com › Blog › Security & Compliance

FTP is Dead: Why You Must Switch to SFTP in 2011

· CoolVDS Team

Sending passwords in cleartext is professional suicide. We break down why standard FTP violates Norwegian data privacy laws and provide a step-by-step guide to hardening your file transfers using SFTP and OpenSSH on CentOS 6.

coolvds.com › Blog › Security & Compliance

Paranoia is a Virtue: The 2011 Linux Server Hardening Guide

· CoolVDS Team

The 'LulzSec summer' proved no one is safe. From iptables policies to SSH key management, here is how to lock down your Norwegian VPS before you even point a domain at it.

coolvds.com › Blog › Performance Optimization

Apache vs. Lighttpd: Tuning for Concurrency and Low Latency in 2011

· CoolVDS Team

Is Apache's process overhead killing your VPS performance? We dive deep into the Lighttpd event-driven architecture, compare configs, and analyze why hardware choice—specifically SSDs—matters just as much as your web server daemon.

coolvds.com › Blog › Server Administration

VPS vs Shared Hosting: Stop Sharing Your CPU with Spammers

· CoolVDS Team

Is your site crawling during peak hours? We dismantle the 'unlimited bandwidth' myth of shared hosting and explain why true hardware isolation via Xen virtualization is the only path for professional scaling in 2011.

coolvds.com › Blog › Database Management

MySQL vs PostgreSQL: The 2011 Performance Showdown for Nordic Sysadmins

· CoolVDS Team

With Oracle's shadow over MySQL and PostgreSQL 9.0's replication breakthrough, the database landscape has shifted. We analyze the trade-offs, configuration flags, and why KVM virtualization is non-negotiable for database IO.

coolvds.com › Blog › Server Administration

OpenVZ vs. KVM: The Hidden Costs of 'Cheap' Container Virtualization

· CoolVDS Team

Is your VPS oversold? We dive deep into the /proc/user_beancounters to reveal why OpenVZ environments often fail under load and why hardware virtualization is the professional choice for Norwegian systems.

coolvds.com › Blog › Hosting Solutions

Cloud Storage Myths in 2011: Why Latency is the Real Enemy

· Georgi Dimitrov

Is the "Cloud" just a marketing buzzword for slow remote servers? We dissect the state of storage technology in 2011, from spinning rust to the SSD revolution, and explain why hosting in Norway matters.