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MYSQL

MariaDB/MySQL

Previously we wrote about MYSQL, to give our customers a better understanding of what MYSQL is. Now – partnering with Jelastic – we offer many new features including MariaDB/MySQL database clusterization which is an obligatory requirement for highly loaded production applications. Togglebox introduced out-of-the-box clustering for MariaDB/MySQL to make applications highly available by default. This…

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Tips on Brute-force RDP Attacks and Remote Desktop Security

The number of brute-force attacks on Remote Desktop Protocol has skyrocketed in 2020. A sharp increase of people telecommuting during the COVID pandemic has attracted cybercriminals looking to take advantage of the surge of new work-from-home employees. At the start of 2020 we saw around 100,000 to 150,000 brute-force RDP attacks per day. By the…

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rDNS Management

New Feature: rDNS Management rDNS entries can now be managed directly from your manage.togglebox.com client area. Entries can be added, edited and removed instantly. You can manage rDNS for your IPs from your virtual server’s IPs tab, in the manage.togglebox.com client area. Access manage.togglebox.com

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Philadelphia Cluster CPU Flag Updates

Newly Available CPU Flags for Togglebox Cloud Servers Following up on our previous post, Enhanced CPU flags are now available in Philadelphia. Notable new flags are AES for encryption tasks and AVX512 for data crunching.  There are also hardware mitigation flags for various Intel CPU security vulnerabilities. In our tests on a standard NGINX web…

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New Disaster Recovery as a Service Clouds (DRaaS Clouds)

Disaster Proofing Your Cloud In a world where Malware, Ransomware, and Data Corruption can cripple your business, Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) has never been easier to implement. Our DRaaS Backups effortlessly provide top tier protection for your websites, applications, and data. With DRaaS Backups you protect yourself from data loss due to data…

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Announcement: XEN to KVM Migration Now Available

We are happy to announce that we can now migrate your Linux VM from XEN to the latest KVM technology. With the KVM virtualization you get: 1. Faster and more reliable technology 2. Faster storage 3. Higher end CPUs The migration process involves: 1. A backup of the current VM which can later be converted…

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How to Upgrade or Downgrade Resources in Your Cloud Virtual Datacenter

  This easy 3-step guide will show you how to increase or decrease resources in your Monthly Cloud. Prerequisites A Monthly, Quarterly, Semi-Annual, or Annual billing Cloud Plan All current invoices Paid If you need increased limits for an Hourly Cloud, please submit a ticket to the Sales team. Note: If you plan to Downgrade…

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How to Scale the Disk Size of a Virtual Server

This easy 2-step guide will show you how to scale the SSD Disk on a virtual server. Disk size can be increased on all servers, but only Linux VMs can decrease disk. Hint: Decreasing the size of a Windows is not possible, but you can add a separate Disk instead, (e.g.; D:\, E:\). If you…

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How to Scale the Resources of a Virtual Server

This easy 2-step guide will show you how to scale RAM and CPU cores on a virtual server. RAM and CPU can be increased or decreased at any time from your client area. Do you need to scale a Disk too? Check out our Scaling A Virtual Server’s Disk tutorial Prerequisites An active Virtual Server…

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How to Create a Virtual Server in a Togglebox Cloud

  In the past, we showed you  how to use OVA support for building a VM. This article is an easy step-by-step tutorial that will show you how to create a Virtual Server (VPS) in a Togglebox Cloud. Prerequisites An active Cloud Service Available resources to create the new server Step 1) Open the Create…

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