Adaptec Series 7 Raid Controllers and VMware ESXi 5.1
Generally at Crucial we are a Xen house, with all of our production servers running either Xen or Citrix XenServer Hypervisors. However,..
Idera (R1Soft) Server Backup Version 5.2 Bug
Idera (formerly R1Soft) have advised all customers of an unforeseen issue effecting their Server Backup software (formerly CDP), which..
Logstalgia
As any system admin knows, every log tells a story and you can never have too many logs. Unless of course those logs are filling up your..
How to Backup and Restore using R1Soft CDP
You’re only as good as your backup solution. Like any IT company, at Crucial we spend a good portion of our time not only ensuring all..
CyberSquatters Raid Vatican Domains
Last week saw the Vatican announce it’s 266th and current pope of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, formerly Archbishop Bergoglio..
Running Windows Server 2012 on Your VPS
For new and existing customers of our new high-performance SSD Cloud and PAYG Cloud VPS solution, Crucial has recently added support for..
Installing CentOS with Adaptec Series 7 RAID Controllers
Here at Crucial we believe in keeping things simple, but not at the price of better performance. In terms of the hardware we deploy..
Scheduling Tasks: Cronjobs & How to Use Crontab
Recently with the wind-down over the Christmas & New Year period, we seem to have had an influx of customers with self-managed servers..
Website Load Testing
Here at Crucial we have a large number of customers running their own VPS & Dedicated Server hosting environments. However, as some..
Useful Plugins for cPanel/WHM
Moving from a shared cPanel hosting environment where server administration is managed by your hosting company (eg. Team Crucial!), to..
Top 10 WordPress Security Tips
At Crucial we have a large number of customers running their websites on WordPress. Being arguably the most user friendly CMS’ available..
FireFox Version 16 Released
Firefox 16 for Windows, Mac, Linux & Android has been released! Including support for HTML5 amongst other features and the usual list of..