Networking

Have you ever had a website load slowly, been in a game that’s lagging, or have a skype call turn robotic? One of the main causes of this is excessive latency. As latency is commonly measured with the “ping” command, this latency is often called your “ping time”. This latency measures the time it takes

Editing /etc/hosts in linux In a previous post, we wrote about configuring putty ssh port forwarding. However, for this to be useful, you do need to edit /etc/hosts (in linux) or the “hosts” file (in windows) to point your target domain to 127.0.0.1. So to help you get that going, this article will show how

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,

At IOFLOOD, quite a lot of our customers run VPS hosting companies, so we try to be familiar with the technologies and control panels used for VPS hosting. We do this because we want to provide help when our customers face challenging server configuration issues. In today’s article, we’re going to discuss how to configure

How to fix packet loss and latency in high bandwidth VPS servers by upgrading to OpenVSwitch Virtualization is one of the most pervasive and transformational technologies in the hosting world to have come along in the last decade. Despite this, maintaining the efficient operation of virtual machines is not always easy. In this article, we’ll