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VPS8 Node Issues: Sunday 14 April 2013

  • 15th April 2013
VPS 8 is an OpenVZ VPS Node.  This form of virtualization allows equal share of the CPU between all hosted containers.  This has the advantage that an individual container (server) can burst into all CPU cores if needed but also can mean in extreme situations one container (server) can cause the main node to become ...
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Global Wordpress Brute Force Attack happening NOW

  • 12th April 2013
Brute Force Attack affecting global Wordpress Installations by Stephen K from BWF Hosting This message is of high importance - please read it all especially the part at the bottom about passwords What is a Brute Force Attack? These links will explain what a Brute Force attack ...
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VPS8 Node Issues

  • 11th April 2013
**We are writing another post about this as we have a lot more information please check the announcaments main page**This is a courtesy update to inform you that we had to reboot VPS8 OpenVZ Node about an hour ago due to the server becoming overloaded.  OpenVZ as you know is a virtualization techology that allows CPU Equal share and ...
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Business 2 Load Issues Last Night

  • 9th April 2013
Some clients on business2.bigwetfish.co.uk  will have noticed server load spikes the past 3 days.  Unfortunately there was one user on this server who was running a Wordpress Website which had 40 active plugins and a cron job that was running out of control.  This client also informed us she had a development team testing some new ...
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