Today, at or around 15:30 GMT, NeoSmart Technologies was victim of a distributed denial of service attack that lasted over two and a half hours. Unfortunately, as a result of the DDOS attack, our server had to be hard-restarted and we encountered some data corruption. All files were recovered with the exception of our MySQL [...]
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DDOS Attacks & Server Updates
Published by June 5th, 2007 in Hacking, NeoSmart Technologies, Security, Software 1 CommentHow To: Open Source + Windows + IIS… with Stability
Published by April 11th, 2007 in Guides, Microsoft, Reviews, Software, Windows 19 CommentsAs we mentioned back in March, we switched NeoSmart Technologies over from PHP’s ISAPI extension for Windows/IIS to Microsoft’s “FastCGI for IIS” implementation instead in hopes of achieving better reliability and uptime during times of heavy load.
Whether you like Windows or not, at some point or the other, you may find yourself using IIS 6 [...]
MySQLi is a “new” ((It’s been available for years, just no one uses it.)) and improved version of the original MySQL extension for PHP. While there is no especially convincing reason to switch from the original MySQL functions to MySQLi, both MySQL and PHP recommend that developers do so.
WordPress is aimed for the masses and WordPress [...]
Earlier today (according to UTC at any rate), NeoSmart Technologies had a severe MySQL problem. After some very heavy load on our resource-intensive NST Gallery it seems that MySQL just started coughing up bytes, nuts, and bolts. It’s all fixed now though, and we’re sorry for the downtime.
The reason it took so long is that we [...]
