Hosting & cloud

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Nuagerie has completed improvements to temporary storage used by its managed hosting platform. The work established a dedicated working area for MariaDB and expanded the platform’s shared temporary-storage capacity. Both changes were followed by functional checks and confirmation that the intended settings were active. Working space for database operations Databases can need temporary files while processing queries or performing maintenance. MariaDB provides settings for...

Nuagerie has completed a coordinated maintenance operation on PHP runtimes and supporting CloudLinux components used by its managed hosting platform. The work included PHP packages, extensions, supporting libraries and Imunify components, followed by checks of application responses and the configurations used by hosted websites. Maintaining the components behind your applications A website relies on more than its application code. PHP extensions, libraries and the hosting...

Nuagerie has completed the conversion of existing MyISAM tables to InnoDB on its managed hosting platform. The work focused on compatibility and the preservation of data and database structures. At completion, no MyISAM tables remained in the platform’s live database inventory. A modern storage engine for existing applications The storage engine determines how a database manages its tables. InnoDB is the default engine in MariaDB and supports transactions, row-level...

Nuagerie has completed a targeted rollout of LiteSpeed Cache for compatible WordPress websites on its managed hosting platform. The work brought page caching into line with the web server, replaced overlapping cache configurations where appropriate and checked that public pages were actually being served from cache. Caching that fits the way a website works A page cache keeps a generated copy of eligible public content so that the application does not need to rebuild it...

Nuagerie has completed the main migration of its managed hosting platform. Our team carried out the transition in successive stages, bringing together environment preparation, data transfers, compatibility work and checks of the services returning to operation. For customers, a hosting migration reaches well beyond moving website files. Applications depend on databases, PHP settings, mail routing and background tasks. The work therefore addressed these dependencies...

Nuagerie has increased resource headroom for eligible hosting plans. Entry-level plans benefit from additional memory and concurrent processing capacity, while disk throughput and disk-operation allowances have been adjusted across the affected tiers. The changes are active on the hosting platform. Resources aligned with everyday website needs A website uses more than disk space. Page generation, content management, image processing and application maintenance also depend...

CentOS Linux 7 reached end of life on June 30, 2024. The CentOS Project’s lifecycle notice stated that the project would no longer publish updates for that release after this date. Its June 2024 reminder confirmed the milestone. For organizations maintaining servers or business applications, this changed the maintenance basis of an established platform. A running server still needs a maintenance plan End of life does not mean that a server immediately stops working. It...

MySQL 8.4.0 was released on April 30, 2024, beginning the MySQL 8.4 Long Term Support series. Oracle’s official release history confirms this milestone. For organizations running websites and business applications, an LTS release provides a basis for maintenance planning. Choosing a destination still requires a clear understanding of the application, its dependencies and the support arrangements involved. Start with what the business needs to preserve A database change...