Category Archives: Information

Automatic Optimization of images

I was cleaning out my email folder yesterday and I came across this old email. While I have removed anything that would specify who this email is with the results are still proving of CLDMV’s systems. I’m also pretty sure this email was prior to the double compression PNG system we currently use now.

As you can see from above not only did our system compress the images as much as Google said we could. But we were able to compress 1-4% more. Here is a recent daily report of our image compression system.

Keeping in mind all the compression is done lossless. Meaning there is no loss in visual quality. The only downside to the compression is if the images store data such as where they were taken, that data is removed.

 

New Security Features

Previously we had been using the over-popular Fail2Ban to scan our logs as a temporary fix for the issue. While the anti-DDOS software written by CLDMV takes care of a ton of bans every day. The hacking attempts are still being attempted by some what smarter hackers.

Today we rolled out our first module for log scanning. With SSH probably being the #1 threat to servers out there that is what we chose to target for our scanner. Took several days but the results are amazing. While I can’t divulge the inner workings of the module. Let me just show you the first ban email we got after running it for the first time:

Keep in mind these numbers and bans are simply based upon the past 24 hours of logs.

Update:

This guy takes the cake for CLDMV’s Anti-DDOS software catching a potential intrusion. Just received this email:

Also the log processing module for SMTP hackers is in place as well now. Here’s the first email for the past 24 hours of attempts:

Why CLDMV for hosting?

On average our clients are seeing a 20-30% increase in page speeds from their old hosting environments to CLDMV’s Servers. Roughly a 40% decrease in the size of downloaded content as all CSS/JS is minified, users can minify their HTML if they choose to do so and all images are compresses to the maximin they can be (completely lossless compression of course).

So far all of our clients have came to us from their own dedicated servers where they were paying on average 300$/month for their servers. CLDMV’s clients pay on average 130$/month as of writing this post. While essentially our service is “Shared hosting on steroids” it can also be compared to a “no limit” VPS. Since most people who are running online websites grow out of their shared hosting environment within the first couple years of business (assuming traffic increases at a steady rate) they don’t want all the hassle of managing a server.

Often more times than not they pay 30-40$/month to have a commercial control panel installed and on top of that pay a system administrator to change things when needed. With CLDMV changes are only a call away and once the control panel rolls out many operations of the hosting plan will be available via the control panel (free of charge).

In our experience most clients running online websites simply need a faster website. They don’t need nor want an entire dedicated server. The industry has forced users to upgrade to that point due to over selling and over crowding servers. Here at CLDMV we monitor everything on the servers daily and apply upgrades or code changes to keep the system running smoothly. Client stats are tracked every hour, server stats every 15 minutes. Traffic is always instantly tracked (logged every 60 seconds). Our mission is to provide affordable hosting with all the benefits of a going out and hiring a optimization company to come and optimize your dedicated server. With CLDMV you don’t have to hire or pay for anything extra for your service.

With many options available (some not listed or posted about yet) the possibilities of hosting with CLDMV are endless. Need your own or want to use your own database server? We got your covered. Need load balancing? We can do that as well (though our biggest servers can handle over 1000 512MB php threads at any given instance and up to 10Gbps of transfer). Just want complete isolation? We offer dedicated servers as well where all the optimization and management of the server is done by us and you have a completely isolated part of our network.

Lets step back for a minute. Any hosting company can offer you the world but can they deliver? Do they have hard numbers which prove their service? Lets let the numbers talk for themselves. Below is a table of response time, load time, downloaded content (with a hard refresh to force all content to be downloaded), google page speed score and estimated cost if any idea of cost is available.

Site 1: http://beautyjoint.com

 

Site  Response Time  Load Time  Download (First Load)  Page Speed Score  Cost
Original  575ms  2.25s  900KB  66  1000$~
Compare  444ms  1.56s  627KB  86  200$~

Site 2: http://adrianas.1stwebstudio.com/en/

 

Site  Response Time  Load Time  Download (First Load)  Page Speed Score  Cost
Original1.61s7.00s4.9MB46??
Compare775ms3.97s3.6MB86130$~??

Site 3: http://www.extasybooks.com/

 

Site  Response Time  Load Time  Download (First Load)  Page Speed Score  Cost
Old945ms5.85s1.1MBKB  74600$~
Current772ms1.97s  627KB  88300$~

 

Notes:

Site speeds and scores ran on 2014/05/07 at 4pm PST (for site 1 and site 2)

Links may or may not be valid at time of viewing.

Sites listed above have given permission to post these stats as a comparison of our service.