Technical Guides
CategoryThe Must Have List of Web Hosting Research Tools
I’ve compiled a list of tools that the Crucial team uses on a daily basis to do research on Web Hosting. These tools can give you a huge..
Jumpbox Templates on Blaze Cloud VPS and PAYG
For those whom haven’t heard the big news we recently launched our new Blaze solution which is an all-SSD Cloud VPS and PAYG Hourly..
The Curious Case of the Mysterious Connection
The computer is slow, compilers are taking sweet time for relatively little code and the sun is shining outside. The day is good, so why..
How CloudFlare has Helped Our Customers so far!
Back in early January we began offering the CloudFlare cPanel plugin across our Web Hosting and Reseller Hosting services. Some of our..
Cloud Security: You’re Only as Secure as Your Weakest Link
If you have you been reading the news recently, you might have noticed the spate of high profile security incidents occurring only in the..
Confluence 5 Brings a Fresh UI
Only just recently did I share our experience with migrating our internal custom KB system to Atlassian Confluence. We’ve been using it..
Maximizing Your Support Experience
Here at Crucial we pride ourselves on providing the best service around, however there is always room for improvement. One of the key..
The Death of Spinning Disk
Linus Torvoldas, the founder of Linux, was recently quoted: “Rotating storage is going the way of the dodo. How do I hate thee, let me..
Evernote Plugin for Confluence
Recently I wrote a blog post about our migration over to Atlassian’s Confluence wiki solution. One of the great things about Confluence..
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..
Getting to Know Your XenServer
I am currently auditing our Citrix XenServer 5.6 Pools. I wanted to be able to easily export some data into Microsoft Excel so I can..
Our Shift to Confluence
For a long, long, long, long, long time Crucial has operated a custom made web based internal knowledge base / documentation area which..