Category: Tech

Using third party monitoring tools, I wanted to see how Serversaurus’ cheapest Melbourne based shared hosting option stacked up against a similarly priced Digital Ocean droplet (virtual machine). The following graphs are over a six month period: Digital Ocean Droplet Period: 6 months Total downtime: 3 hours 30 minutes over 16 outages Uptime: 99.92% Serversaurus Personal Hosting Period: 6 months...

Over the last week we’ve seen a spate of WordPress attacks hitting client blogs, turning our servers into outgoing SPAM farms. Unfortunately in some cases, this has affected other customers (we’re solving that, more later), because the reputation of our network becomes jeopardised. WordPress gets a bit of a bad rap for being insecure, but more often than not, it’s...

Last week, new metadata retention laws cleared the Australian senate, passing 43 votes to 16. In a nutshell, these new laws require Australian ISP’s and telco’s to store Internet and phone metadata records for two years. Under the law, security agencies (among others), will have direct access to these records, without requiring a warrant. However, law enforcement will require a...