ThinkOvi! – Website transfer and Server migration services

Recovering from disk failures

As you might know, disk drives, specially in high usage areas like hosting enviroments, have a tendency of crashing from time to time. Most crashes you will encounter are related to bad blocks on your hard drive which in some cases will stop your operating system from booting, leaving your server at a stop. There are several utilities which can help you detect and fix the bad blocks at a software level, like the FSCK(file system check) available for Linux, or CHKDSK and SCANDISK for Windo...

Installing PHP on Windows got easier! finally….!

It seems that, earlier this year, Microsoft released a small application called Web Platform Installer , a utility meant to be dead simple to install a range of web applications and get your website up and going fast on a IIS server. Beside the usual Microsoft web applications support like ASP.NET and SQL SERVER, they also added support for PHP, facilitating this way the installation of a range of web publishing tools like Drupal, Moodle and Wordpress, hope I see some Joomla! there as it'...

Transfering files securely

Are you thinking of transferring some files from your server to another location over an unsecured network? Lets say those files contain some important data(ex. your credit card database data) and you are a little paranoid when thinking about unsecured network connections. In case you are running Linux, you are in luck, the Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) is an free encryption tool that can encrypt or sign your files/archives with a password or an access key. Basic usage open up a ssh ter...

What happens when your employee goes BAD?

We've recently been contracted to move a client sites between servers. Well the job has been finished, sites were working correctly on the new server until recently, a few weeks after the move, when he discovered an old employee of his installed much to our surprise a lot of backdoor code inside the sites so that he could get unauthorized access at any time. By doing this, he managed to delete a lot of important database data as far as we checked. While I do not have the details of their ...

Welcome to ThinkOvi!

We are offering you the best services to get your website transfered to a new host with minimal downtime and worries. Please check our Website migration detailed service description, and send us an Inquiry, we will try to respond as soon as possible. We can also migrate entire servers or applications to new hosting environments, please check our dedicated Server Migration service description.