Our fastest ever Magento cluster [break][/break] We have just launched our most powerful and condensed Magento cluster to date. We have nick named it ‘Godzilla’. This beast really is special with an all latest gen SSD raid ten storage and the very latest Oct Core Intel Cpu’s. [break][/break] This beast sits in a 2u space and thanks to 100% […]
Two of the biggest caching plugins in WordPress have what we would classify a very serious vulnerability – remote code execution (RCE), a.k.a., arbitrary code execution. [break][/break] [break][/break] It appears that a user by the name of kisscsaby first disclosed the issue a month ago via the WordPress forums. As of 5 days ago both plugin authors have […]
How CloudFlare increases speed and security of your site [break][/break] This is a guest post written and contributed by CloudFlare. CloudFlare makes it easy for any site to be as fast and secure as the Internet giants. [break][/break] [break][/break] CloudFlare, a web performance and security company, is excited to announce our partnership with Simple Servers! […]
Unrivalled high performance SSD now standard After extensive trials we are now pleased to announce that all SSD Rocket box servers now use the latest Samsung 840 PRO series drives. This is our latest stage in a market leading solid state drive journey. After the initial dismal performce of the crucial SSD dives and OCZ […]
We are pleased to announce our latest rack has been commissioned, with diverse 1000mbs network and is “tier 4 aligned”, the highest recognised datacentre standard in the industry, and offers N+N (aka 2N) redundancy and is used for our dedicated and shared customers. Needless to say the new rack benefits from our standard double […]
The team worked hard at the weekend adding a new R1soft backup server to further strengthen our backup solution. The new server adds a whopping 16TB of storage that also fails over to a redundant SAN. All linked to our dedicated and shared servers via 1000GBS internal network. The box is a 8 Disk […]
UPDATE I spoke with 2 team leads from Clouflare on the phone today, both really nice and helpful guys. They will be sorting the issues out we had. Top marks guys! —————————————————————————————- Cloudflare is an excellent service and we recommend it thouroughly having had a great experience until this week. One of our customers was […]
We are please to announce that the Simple VIP reseller programme is finally here! [break][/break] Earn discounts of up to 25% with no buy in and no minimum term! [break][/break] Join the Simple partner programme, leverage our hosting expertise, and get access to a very competitive referral compensation plan. The programme is designed to make […]
We have just completed a massive 32 core cpu custom magento cluster using the latest 12 Gen Dell Enterprise servers with Intel 330 series SSD drives. This was to help an existing customer who started getting 700 + concurrent users to their Magento store, they expect this traffic to double in the next month. We […]
Intel 330 Series SSD Drives After our early adoption of SSD drives for web servers we have learnt a lot, the hard way… Our Current SSD server fleet consists of Crucial, Various OCZ flavours, Samsung and now Intel. We have had excellent performance from Samsung (0 Fails), and terrible performance from Crucial (All 20 Crucial […]