In today’s world, everyone is looking to have faster and more efficient storage systems to power their IT services. It is also observed that over time, we have come a long way from simple file systems to advanced and self-managing storage systems like Ceph storage architecture. In this post, we are going to discuss what Thin Provisioning is and what it does to make Ceph highly effective. If you want to learn more about what…
Erasure Coding (EC), is a method of data storage which helps improve data redundancy and reliability. In an age where data integrity and reliability of storage structures is so important, techniques such as Erasure coding go a long way to building robustness into Storage Architectures. In Erasure coding, the data stored across the disk is fragmented into bits and each of these fragments is then encoded for a high level of protection and then stored…
In today’s day and age, most businesses have moved either all or a part of their operations online. Often times we hear that one technology is better than the other for a business to thrive in the web industry. One such technology that has become quite a buzzword recently is ‘Cloud Computing.’ Cloud Computing as a term is used for everything related to the cloud. Be it cloud services, cloud systems, platforms, web hosting, etc.…
When you’re new in the web industry and plan to host your first website or a blog, there are a lot of questions on your mind. Should I go with a free service or a premium one? Is this the right time to invest in a paid service and if yes, which hosting service do I choose? Eventually, most website owners end up choosing Shared Hosting as it offers good features for beginners and is…
The Internet of Things (IoT) has gradually transformed the way daily tasks are completed. Take smart homing for instance. People can start their cooling devices remotely through their mobile phones. This earlier used to be possible via an SMS, but today the internet has made it easier. Apart from providing smarter solutions for homes and housing communities, IoT has also been used as a tool in business environments across various industries. However, with the amount…
Enterprises deploying cloud web hosting needed storage solutions that can help them manage critical business data. With the rise of open source software and high-performance storage systems, their penetration into cloud technology became imminent. Underlining this principle of high-performance storage systems for fast compute speed, Ceph storage was formed. What is Ceph Storage? Ceph is an open source software put together to facilitate highly scalable object, block and file-based storage under one whole system. The…
As web hosting evolves as a service in a bid to cater to the needs of various customers, hosting providers are often asked about the peculiarities of every hosting service, cloud and shared hosting in particular. This query, asked by bloggers, web professionals and businesses alike, has often been a subject of discussion so as to come down to a better decision while choosing a hosting package. However, both shared as well as cloud hosting…
Go back to some good old years and you would have heard a common problem, ‘my hard disk is full I don’t know where to store my data anymore.’ These things now sound alien, don’t they? After all, with the arrival of cloud, this problem has disappeared. However, it wasn’t until a few years later that people actually began trusting the cloud and using it. And well once they did, there was no turning back.…
When it comes to selecting hosting, the first thing that comes to mind is a website. However, hosting can be applicable for different purposes. You may run an SMB, be a professional blogger or be a web pro setting up your data centre, selecting the right hosting, therefore, depends on the purpose you wish to use it for. In this post, I’ll walk you through two of the most suitable hosting services for hosting your…
As a web pro, one of the things you need to manage your business website effectively is a control panel. cPanel is a popular web-based dashboard that helps you with many administrative tasks. In this article, we’ll see how to use cPanel to create a website in some simple steps. What is cPanel? cPanel is a web-based graphical control panel that helps you create websites and manage your web hosting account. It has a simple…