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Kubernetes has become the go-to platform to build, manage, and scale IT infrastructures. Using a few YAML configuration files, you can create a self-sufficient cluster with application pods distributed across various nodes. Kubernetes ensures that pods restart in case they crash, scale-up in times of high traffic, and migrate to a different node, if the […]

What is NginX? NginX (pronounced Engine-X or N-Jinx) is a high-performance web server designed to deliver large amounts of content quickly with the efficient use of system resources. NginX’s strong point is its ability to efficiently serve static content, like plain HTML and media files. It is especially good at handling many concurrent connections. Some consider it […]

In our virtual machine guide, we explain everything there is to know about virtual machines in a series of blogs that will grow continuously. We will explain exactly what VMs are, how they are virtualized, how they run, how they can benefit your business, use cases, cloud virtualization and IaaS, how it works, what the […]

What is RAID? RAID (redundant array of independent disks or redundant array of inexpensive disks) is a way of storing the same data on multiple hard disks to protect data in the case of a drive failure. However, not all RAID levels provide redundancy. Data is distributed across the drives in one of several ways, referred to as RAID […]

Apache Server is one of the oldest web servers. Apache used to run only on Linux but is now available for Windows and OS/2 as well. The Apache Server has been around since 1995 and has played a major role in the development of the World Wide Web (WWW). It was based on the NCSA HTTPd server, […]

We are often so eager to use our new HOSTAFRICA VPS that we jump in and use the default software that either comes with the VPS or that comes to mind. Through the years we have come to know the Apache/Httpd web server as the backbone of the internet. On Windows, it has always been […]