Servers & Technology articles

Servers & Technology 251 cPanel, DirectAdmin or Plesk: what actually differs between control panels They do the same job with different menus. All three are hosting control panels: a web page where you create e-mail...
Servers & Technology 226 SSD or NVMe storage: does the difference matter for a website NVMe is a faster kind of SSD, and for an ordinary website it is almost never what makes the site fast or slow. It...
Servers & Technology 252 Moving a site between Linux and Windows servers: the differences that break it A site made only of HTML, CSS and JavaScript moves from Linux to Windows (or back) with no trouble. A site with PHP...
Servers & Technology 227 InnoDB or MyISAM: which storage engine, and what to do with an old table Use InnoDB. It is the default engine of the MariaDB that runs on our hosting, it copes better with failures and...
Servers & Technology 338 PHP or Node.js for your web project: how to choose If you are installing WordPress, a shop or another ready-made program, use PHP: it is what the program asks for. If...
Servers & Technology 222 File Manager, FTP, SFTP or Git: which way to upload your site For a small change, use the cPanel File Manager. To upload a whole site or many files, use SFTP (or FTP over TLS)...
Servers & Technology 193 KVM or container VPS: what the virtualisation type changes A KVM VPS is a complete virtual machine, with its own operating system kernel; a container VPS shares the physical...
Servers & Technology 210 Webhook or polling: how one system learns that something changed in another If the other system can notify you, use a webhook: it arrives at once and wastes no requests. If it cannot, or if...
Servers & Technology 227 Site with a CDN or without: how to test whether it made a difference Short answer: a CDN is worth keeping only if the numbers for your site improve for your visitors. You do not decide...
Servers & Technology 239 Automatic daily backup or your own copy: which one saves you, and when Short answer: they are not alternatives, they cover different problems. The automatic daily backup handles most...
Servers & Technology 249 LiteSpeed or Apache: what the web server changes for your site, and what it does not The web server is the program that receives the browser’s request and hands back the page. Apache and LiteSpeed do...
Servers & Technology 245 SonicPanel or VoxStream: which streaming panel to choose for your radio The short answer: both panels get your station on air with the essentials: AutoDJ, playlists, DJ accounts, jingles,...