Even at the dawn of the internet, when its adoption was still very confidential, the first cyberattacks were already happening. The very first cyberattack appears to have taken place as early as 1988, when only a few tens of thousands of computers were connected to the internet. These days, these attacks are common and more …
SQL mode controls the way the MySQL / MariaDB DBMS engine (Data Base Management System) understand syntax and validates data given to it for processing. We can compare it to a game with different rule sets, on which every player must agree before playing. The UNO analogy Let’s make an analogy with the UNO card …
Guest blog by Jorge Román, CEO de Transparent Edge Services Let’s talk about something that matters to almost every single web site out there: speed optimization. To talk about this, we have to mention an essential key player: the CDN. A CDN plays an important role in optimizing the speed of a website. However, many …
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This article is the follow up to Selfheal at Webhosting – The External Part published on 2020-07-17.Part two below covers the local self-healing system. Introduction With over 15-000 servers dedicated to providing services for 6 million websites and web applications of all sorts, across multiple data-centers and geographical zones, a certain amount of software failures …
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When the first number of a version is changed in a programming language it usually means major revisions have been developed. PHP 8 release is one of these major updates with a focus on performance thanks to its PHP 8 JIT compiler (Just in Time) added to new features which we will cover later in …
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In our previous article concerning the CVE-2017-9841 vulnerability, we presented our web application firewall (WAF) implemented with NAXSI. Usually, a WAF is run directly on the web server. At OVHcloud, we chose to run our web application firewall upstream, on a very powerful software layer that is specific to our web hosting infrastructures. These are …
Introduction With almost 6000000 websites hosted on more than 15000 servers, the OVHcloud Webhosting SRE team manage lots of alerts during their working day. Our infrastructure is constantly growing, but to scale smoothly, the amount of time spent solving alerts should not increase proportionally. We need, therefore, some tools to help us. In our team, we …
If you have ever managed or edited a website, you will likely have experience tracking page views and hit statistics. If this is the case, then this article is for you! Get ready to step into 2020 with a brand new interface! A bit of history There are multiple solutions on the market designed to help …
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This post is another part of our list of short posts pinpointing specific cases OVHcloud has dealt with, both preparing for and during the migration. Here, we tell a story of how sometimes, a little unexpected behaviour can lead to a bug fix in a software program used by millions of people around the world. …
As explained thoroughly in an earlier post, the P19 migration meant we needed to add a new element to our infrastructure… namely the ProxySQL. Life was not easy for it at first, but it soon learned how to handle the diverse range of configurations your websites have, particularly when it comes to making sure the path connecting …
