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Monday, September 21, 2015
I want to start off by saying that there are a lot of causes for the error in the title of this article, most of which are easy to fix conditions centering around misconfiguration. However none of them applied to our situation here. After weeks/months of troubleshooting and isolating on a customer’s (unfortunately production) servers… Read more »
Thursday, September 3, 2015
The ultimate storage shootout! With years of building and testing servers in various configurations we have always suspected hardware RAID was not all that it’s cracked up to be. FreeBSD’s GMIRROR and ZFS are great, but up until now it’s been a gut feeling combined with anecdotal evidence. Today, we change that. The Test Setup… Read more »
Friday, August 7, 2015
Today A-Team Systems formally announces the latest edition to all maintenance and monitoring plans: Complete integration with New Relic application monitoring and metrics. We’re particularly excited about this as New Relic is the standard for application monitoring and is an excellent tool for driving optimization of code, database and systems infrastructure. Unified Monitoring Foremost A-Team… Read more »
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
We had a situation where a client using Joomla wanted to have trailing slashes added to URLs, not just processed behind the scenes as the ‘correct’ URL but 301ed to the resulting URL with the trailing slash. This makes sense from a SEO standpoint as you don’t want two URLs with the same content. Joomla… Read more »
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
We’re a big fan of PHP-FPM and chrooting, all of our deployments use this along with per-site UIDs to ensure complete isolation and resource control. This week we ran into an issue where a client needed the ImageMagick PECL module (and therefore the ImageMagick package) installed. After configuring the extension and reloading PHP-FPM we saw… Read more »
Monday, May 25, 2015
A-Team Systems has just completed full integration of Qualys’ SSL Labs testing suite into our client server monitoring infrastructure. All of our maintenance and monitoring plans now include continuous best practice configuration, protocol, and certificate monitoring for all HTTPS sites — automatically! This ensures our client’s SSL configurations are always the most secure as industry… Read more »
Monday, April 27, 2015
While looking to add USB 3.0 ports to two servers which had no motherboard ports we tested out two different cards: Syba USB 3.0 PCIe x1 2.0 Card – 2-Port with internal 19 Pin USB 3.0 Header (Model SD-PEX20139) Insignia USB 3.0 PCIe x1 2.0 Card – 2-Port (Model NS-PCCUP53) Performance was both good and… Read more »
Monday, March 16, 2015
Cloud servers provide a turn key solution to a lot of problems, however they can quickly become an expensive crutch that hides problems rather than solving them. A lot of companies start out with one or two cloud servers then increase resources on them or provision more as their product grows. Quickly this can turn… Read more »
Monday, March 2, 2015
In an effort to expand the reach of our core high-availability stack, A-Team Systems formally announces three additional layout options for clients to choose from when picking which architecture is right for their sites and applications. This complete layout offering delivers a great range of balanced options for entry-level systems, while improving high-end clustering capabilities… Read more »
Monday, December 15, 2014
Add an SSD to your already full 1U rackmount server! Recently A-Team Systems deployed a number of 1U rackmount servers with four hot-swap SATA bays, all of which we populated to give us maximum ZFS performance (and capacity) across as many spindles as possible. We also wanted to get the performance of SSDs for certain… Read more »
