What is an MTR? Network administration and troubleshooting go hand in hand! If you are a network administrator, you would probably be aware of the two most popular troubleshooting tools, Ping and Traceroute. The latest in the series is My Traceroute (MTR) originally Matt’s traceroute. It has evolved to become one of the most popular […]
Traditionally, to perform a speed test for your home connection, or 100Mbps, or a even 1Gbps dedicated server – you would just use any common third party website, such as speedtest.net or Fast.com. It’s a common fact that it is fairly simple and easy to perform such a test using any web interface, or just […]
What is Ransomware? Threats can be dangerous for your system as well as your online business. There is no doubt that there are numerous applications available that can reduce the effect of online threats, malware, viruses, and much more. But there are some threats which can be difficult to control, and one of them is […]
Did you know that more than 850,000 websites are still using the old TLS 1.0 and 1.1 protocols? Support for this is finally being scheduled to be removed from most major web browsers between March and April 2020. TLS 1.0 and 1.1 are antiquated protocols – both released in 1996 and 2006, respectively. New versions […]
CIDR is the short form of Classless Inter-Domain Routing, which facilitates the allocation of IP addresses. In layman’s language, it is a set of internet protocol standards that uniquely identifies individual networks and devices. The IP ensures that specific information is sent to particular computers. CIDR comes in to offer more solutions in the allocation […]
Los Angeles, CA., March 5, 2020 — RackNerd, a global web hosting provider has launched its redesigned website. With the completion of the full website redesign, the company has not only added enhanced content providing more information at a glance, but also a revamped shopping cart and client area management interface that simplifies the end-user […]
LiteSpeed Web Server Your website loading speed can greatly affect your ranking. The bounce rate from your website can be significant if site visitors experience loading delays. LiteSpeed Web Server is an effective software that you can install on your server when there comes a need to improve the acceleration speed of your website. Primary […]
A private cloud solution will give you performance, scalability, security, redundancy, and efficiency advantages – at a price you can afford. With endless flexibility available, you can carve out and assign the exact amount of compute, memory, and protected storage you need to have your environment thrive. RackNerd offers turn-key (starter) and fully-custom private cloud […]
You may have come across the term “VPS” which means Virtual Private Server. Just as the name suggests, it is a private server that is installed on a physical server. Despite the fact that the server runs multiple servers (also known as multi-tenant hosting); this private server does not alter the performance of other servers […]
CentOS 6 will reach End of Life on November 30th, 2020. End of Life means a product is no longer supported. CentOS will no longer provide security updates or bug fixes for CentOS 6 after this date – therefore, it is critical for you to migrate over to a newer versions of CentOS before the […]
