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09 Dec 2022
Create an SSH SOCKS Proxy with PuTTY: A Step-by-Step Guide
If you’re looking for a secure way to connect to remote networks or keep your network traffic confidential, using PuTTY as a SOCKS proxy is a fantastic choice. This approach opens up a new world of possibilities, forwarding network traffic through a secure SSH tunnel while utilizing the SOCKS protocol to offer a simple solution
09 Dec 2022
PuTTy SSH Tunneling: A Step-by-Step Guide
SSH tunneling with PuTTY is a useful tool for encrypting your network traffic or accessing services on other networks securely. Using this software, you can relay network traffic securely from one network site to another, guarding your information against hacking and eavesdropping. This also allows you to connect to things that may be blocked locally,
02 Mar 2021
Testing the network speed of your IOFLOOD.com server with iperf
With 10gbps and faster network ports becoming more common all the time, it is becoming increasingly important to make sure that a server can actually use all of that bandwidth. At these high speeds, many things can go wrong that limit your performance to less than the maximum speed of the port. The most important
04 Feb 2021
Optimal RAID Stripe Size and filesystem Readahead for RAID-10?
What RAID stripe size is ideal for an array of hard drives? What are the default settings for both raid stripe size and filesystem readahead? Are those defaults acceptable? How do these settings impact the performance of my server? In this post, we’ll go into detail as to what settings are ideal for a server
28 Jan 2021
What is TTL in ping / traceroute?
If you’ve run the essential diagnostic program “ping”, you may have noticed as part of the output, it tells you the “TTL” for each test result. You may have wondered, what does TTL mean? Should I be concerned about it? What does TTL actually do? We will explore that question in today’s blog. So first
25 Jan 2021
IOWAIT in Linux — is iowait too high?
High IOWAIT can be a real problem in linux, making your server grind to a halt. The question is, how high is too high? When should I be concerned? Firstly, we’ll talk about what IOWAIT means, discuss related statistics and how to interpret them, and finally how to decide if IOWAIT is causing a problem.
29 Feb 2020
Got Bandwidth? 10Gbps and 40Gbps Ports Now Available
With the rise of online video, more bandwidth is being used now than ever before. At the same time, with innovations from Arista Networks and many others, high speed switching is becoming more and more affordable. IOFLOOD is proud to announce, that customers like you can now get 10gbps and 40gbps internet and private connectivity
21 Feb 2020
What is Apache Keepalive Timeout? How to optimize this critical setting.
If you’ve struggled to fix web server slowdowns or crashes, you may have come across a setting for Apache called “Keep-Alive”. This is one of the most powerful — and frequently misused — features of apache. In this article, we’ll explain: What is Apache Keepalive / Keepalive Timeout? What configuration is optimal for best server
15 Feb 2019
February 2019 Server Parts Pricing Report
Another month has gone by, and it’s time for the second installment of our monthly server parts pricing report. You may have seen the wild price fluctuations on RAM and SSDs the last year or so. As well, some models of really powerful CPUs have come way down on the aftermarket. It can be a
06 Jan 2019
January 2019 Server Parts Pricing Report
First update in a while, but I think this is a good one. You may have seen the wild price fluctuations on RAM and SSDs the last year or so. As well, some models of really powerful CPUs have come way down on the aftermarket. It can be a lot to keep up with. Along