It’s 2011, 7 years after HostGeekZ was created. The old site has not been updated since 2006 so rather than just refresh content we have went for a complete change. We needed a home for a new blog for our linux server management company and this seems like the perfect place.
Alittle bit of history, HostGeekZ was created in 2004 as a web hosting news, server management tutorials and documentation source. Up until 2006 we did keep this updated regularly with new content, useful and helpful guides and our most popular RoundCube Patch for cPanel (This was before this was available as standard with cPanel).
In 2006 due to demand we launched a new business offering Linux Server Management, mySQL DBA, Infrastructure Management which taken the focus away from HostGeekZ and this ultimately what the last 5 years have been spent on. As the focus was lost on commenting/analyzing on hosting industry news and was solely tutorials, combined with the fact they have not been updated since 2006 we have just decided to retire the old content and archive it, the useful entries we shall rewrite and update for the blog but from here on in this will be the blog for our business.
Some topics we will cover,
Backup Management and Maintenance
CDN Implementation, Benefits and Cost
Cloud Management
Cloud Challenges
Distributed Monitoring
Hosting Industry Acquisitions
Hosting Industry Proucts
Infrastructure Budgeting
Infrastructure Management
LAMP Scaling
Most Recent IT Related News
mySQL Performance Optimization
New Ideas
noSQL movement
Outages
Performance Benchmarks
Security Topics
The coming entries will be,
HBGary Compromise Review
We will analyze what we believe happened from what documentation is available. How it could have been prevented and it’s impacts.
Filtering DDoS with nginx proxy
This shall be a 2 part entry on how to use proxys to filter HTTP floods with nginx using javascript cookies.
Filtering iframe DDoS with nginx
Following on from the first entry we will cover how to adapt this to filter iframe DDoS which loads a javascript engine to mitigate the previous solution.
OpenStacks Future and Rackspace Support
We will discuss the future for OpenStack and the benefits of the new announcement of RackSpaces new division “Cloud Builders”