Why is getting your web hosting provider right so important? As a small business owner, the hosting for your small business website and your emails, may not seem like a big deal. In fact, if you ask most small business owners who they use for web hosting, they may have to think twice in order … Read more
We upgraded to MySQL 5.7 and have had numerous problems with performance. We upgraded because we needed the new support for fractional timestamps but we’ve since learnt that this functionality has been ported back to MySQL v5.6.35. So in some situations the best way to fix MySQL 5.7 performance issues is to downgrade to V5.6.35 which … Read more
Can anyone point me to a cloud hosting provider who will really commit to 99.999% availability? From what I’ve seen some offer this but only back it up with meaningless compensation if they fail such as refunding a months hosting fees which for any business which really needs 99.999% availability will be out of proportion … Read more