11 Feb 2021
Server Pricing Report – February 2021
Welcome to the Second installment of our monthly server price reporting for 2021. If you were following along, we’ve been tracking changing parts prices for RAM, SSDs, Hard Drives, CPUs, and a couple of GPUs. Typically this is done monthly, and then shared on our blog. Currently, all listed prices are from eBay, for used ...
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
How To: Update a Contact in Ubersmith
Welcome to another of our Ubersmith ‘how to’ guides! For this post we’re going to walk you through one of the most common questions we get asked in the support department. “How do I update my contact information with you?” Missing important emails can sometimes have negative effects on your business, especially if it ends ...
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. ...
12 Jan 2021
How To: Add a Contact in Ubersmith
Welcome to another of our Ubersmith ‘how to’ guides! For this post we’re going to walk you through one of the most common questions we get asked in the support department. “How do I add additional contacts to my account?” We know that sometimes it takes lots of hands to help run a business, especially ...
07 Jan 2021
Server Pricing Report – January 2021
Welcome to the First installment of our monthly server price reporting for 2021. If you were following along, last year we’ve been tracking changing parts prices for RAM, SSDs, Hard Drives, CPUs, and a couple of GPUs. Typically this is done monthly, and then shared on our blog. Currently, all listed prices are from eBay, ...
01 Dec 2020
Server Pricing Report – December 2020
Welcome to the FINAL installment of our monthly server price reporting for 2020. If you were following along, last year we’ve been tracking changing parts prices for RAM, SSDs, Hard Drives, CPUs, and a couple of GPUs. Typically this is done monthly, and then shared on our blog. Currently, all listed prices are from eBay, ...
02 Nov 2020
Server Pricing Report – November 2020
Welcome to the Ninth installment of our monthly server price reporting for 2020. If you were following along, last year we’ve been tracking changing parts prices for RAM, SSDs, Hard Drives, CPUs, and a couple of GPUs. Typically this is done monthly, and then shared on our blog. Currently, all listed prices are from eBay, ...
06 Oct 2020
How To: Set Up a Paypal Subscription
Welcome to another of our ‘How To’ customer guides! For this post we’re going to walk you through another of the most common questions we get asked in the billing department. How can I add a PayPal Subscription to my account? We know that our customers are busy running their businesses and have better things ...