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EDUCATION CITY
Education City is a rapidly expanding business supplying Internet-based core curriculum teaching to schools and parents. The company started out in 1999 and have hosted with ForLinux since 2005. In December 2006 Education City opened an office in the USA and the company sees big opportunities there for expansion.
Simon Booley, Proprietor “Our products [...]
“I must admit it’s been excellent since the changes went in a couple of months ago with memcache being a major benefit to us. If you hadn’t come up with that as a potential fix then quite frankly I don’t know where we’d be right now!
In terms of online orders July was a record month [...]
MORTONS PRINT LIMITED
Mortons is a thriving, independent and award-winning printing and
publishing company with a worldwide customer base and a long, proud
history of embracing the latest technical innovations to maintain the highest
quality standards.
Jason Williams, E-business Manager, Mortons Print Ltd:
“We have been with ForLinux since around January 2005 and we first came
to them because of a recommendation [...]
Linux solution helps company continue 163% growth
Linux has rapidly evolved from a niche and hobbyist toy to a credible environment in use at many businesses. Mainstream businesses are now seeing that Linux is maturing as a credible alternative to other operating environments from the cost, resource and control perspectives. Linux is well known for it’s [...]
Amazon Cloud EC2 Pricing Summary
Amazon Web Services (aka EC2, Amazon Cloud Computing, AWS) provide you with the ability to create virtual servers and only pay for them while they are in use. The virtual servers (known as Instances) can be various sizes ,in terms of CPU, RAM and temporary disk space. Disk space is temporary, [...]
ForLinux Dedicated servers are supported by Linux Professionals who will be able to assist you in configuration and installation of Tomcat. Complete the contact form on the right to discuss the best options for your hosting.
The single biggest hardware issue affecting webserver performance is RAM. A webserver should never ever have to swap, as swapping increases the latency of each request beyond a point that users consider “fast enough”. This causes users to hit [...]
Tuning MySQL Server in a hosting environment can be a can of worms. This script -
http://www.day32.com/MySQL/tuning-primer.sh
will help diagnose possible configuration issues.
This script takes information from “SHOW STATUS LIKE…” and “SHOW VARIABLES LIKE…”
to produce sane recommendations for tuning server variables.
It is compatible with all versions of MySQL 3.23 and higher (including 5.1).
Currently it handles recommendations for [...]