Consider switching: MySQL vs MariaDB
If you’re working with databases, you’ve surely heard about MySQL. When Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in April 2009 – the company who owned MySQL – a lot of developers expressed concern about the future of MySQL.
Being the author and founder of MySQL and a strong open-source believer, Michael “Monty” Widenius, decided to start a new project and create a “drop-in” replacement, MariaDB.
MariaDB’s goal is to have 100% compatibility with MySQL, as well as adding new features, additional bugfixes and improved performance.
New Jelastic feature – FTP and FTP-SSL
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added full FTP and FTP-SSL support to Jelastic to allow you to login directly and (optionally) securely to your servers. This frequently requested feature will allow you to perform operations such as:
- Downloading log files
- Uploading/downloading web applications and other files
- Making changes to your configuration files
FTP requires a public IP address in order to work. You can either enable a public IP address on your web server through our “Topology wizard”, or it will be automatically enabled when you install the FTP addon.
Save big with new Reserved Cloudlets
We’ve just added a new special type of cloudlet to our Jelastic Cloud: the Reserved Cloudlet.
Like normal, this is 128MB RAM and 200 MHz CPU, but you can pre-book this cloudlet to make it 100% yours. Any cloudlets that you reserve, you pay for – even if your resource usage is lower. However, because this helps us to plan capacity across the platform, we give you a sweet discount (saving up to a HUGE 55%).
Learn more about Reserved Cloudlets
We’ve also converted our standard cloudlets to Dynamic Cloudlets (they work just like before, but with a new name) and reduced their cost.
Combine Reserved Cloudlets with Dynamic Cloudlets to get the best of both worlds – the rock bottom pricing of our heavily discounted Reserved Cloudlets, and the on-demand automatic scaling courtesy of Dynamic Cloudlets.
Spam filter showdown: SpamAssassin vs MagicSpam
Without a high quality spam filter, your mailbox can quite easily become overrun with hundreds of junk emails in a matter of days. As a solution to this we offer both MagicSpam and SpamAssassin as spam filtering modules within Plesk.
Although MagicSpam and SpamAssassin have similar goals they achieve them in largely different ways. SpamAssassin works by checking the content of each inbound email for certain keywords and phrases that are deemed suspicious. Whereas MagicSpam checks that the email was sent using best practice methods and that the sender isn’t listed on any email blacklist (DNSBL) as a known spammer.
When they’re installed and integrated with Plesk both solutions become incredibly easy to manage allowing them to be enabled, disabled and configured with the click of a button!
Why the Google Penguin hates SEOs
Let me introduce you to our first guest post by Lewis Bassett. Lewis is already enjoying the benefits of hosting with us, and has some interesting thoughts to share with you regarding the recent Google Penguin updates (Penguin Update 3 was just released this month, so read on!).
Unless you live in cave, you’ve probably heard about the Google Penguin updates over the last few months.
Webmasters and Search Engine Optimisers (SEOs) around the world have been waking to find their websites relegated to page five of the Google search results – from the top of page one, almost over night.
If this happened to you, you’re probably wondering why.
Many of these websites are very well optimised. Yours was too. So what gives?
In my opinion, this seismic shift has been a long time coming. And the reason so many SEOs and webmasters are left confused is because most don’t understand how – or more importantly why – the Google search engine works.