Sliqua Server Environment is a highly customized version of CentOS, the enterprise-grade Linux distribution our servers have been running for years. The Sliqua Labs team has been working diligently on this project for a few months, and have finally put it into production across-the-board with the release of CentOS 5.4 and InterWorx 4.1.
What features are provided for me?
- InterWorx 4.1 – The most reliable hosting control panel in the industry. With a proven track record, InterWorx has delivered a highly reliable and secure platform for managing websites and servers. The 4.x upgrade adds many features, including a “snappier” web interface driven by AJAX (an emerging Web 2.0 technology).
- SimpleScripts – A streamlined one-click installer for blogs, photo galleries, forums, and more. From within our SiteWorx control panel, you can install open source scripts, and upgrade them with ease.
- Hardened PHP 5.2 – This was a tough move for us to make, as we are strong believers in the nature of Enterprise Linux, which simply back-ports security updates. However, due to popular demand from customers, we have made the leap to PHP 5.2. Our hardened PHP packages are maintained in-house, and include the Suhosin hardening patch and extensions. As with our previous release, PHP executes as the user, within a jailed chroot environment.
- Memcached – We have included memcached as a part of this release, after seeing it’s production use on sites like Facebook. Memcached gives our customers the ability to accelerate their websites with a second layer of caching beyond MySQL. Using extensions such as W3 Total Cache in WordPress, some customers can cut their website load times in half, by caching their Database Queries in memory.
- Ruby on Rails – We have included Ruby Enterprise Edition, Rails, and Phusion Passenger as a part of this release. Ruby on Rails is a web application framework that’s optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity.
- ModSecurity – We have included a new series of ModSecurity rulesets, with streamlined updates, to protect your websites against the latest web application attacks. This is our second layer of web application protection, beyond what the Suhosin Patch and Extension can provide.
- R1Soft Hourly Incremental Backups– Our backup systems automatically backup your data hourly (at the block-level), with two week data retention. For our shared hosting customers, we also backup MySQL databases at the table-level every hour. This ensures we can quickly, and reliably restore your website to any hour in the last two weeks.
- Configuration Consistency – With the release of Sliqua Server Environment, we are now able to streamline package and configuration updates, with our latest performance and security optimizations. The update process is entirely scripted and change logs for each server are maintained to ensure consistency. An added benefit is that we eliminate the chance of problems during upgrades and migrations between servers.
- Anycast DNS – This isn’t a new feature, but is worth mentioning. We host your domains’ DNS off-site on a global Anycast DNS network. Unlike most providers, we host all of our DNS services in this fashion, to provide instant DNS scalability, and eliminate downtime.
How do I get Sliqua Server Environment?
If your website is hosted on a Shared Hosting or Managed Hosting plan, you’re already running on the Sliqua Server Environment. If not, contact us to find out how Sliqua Server Environment can help your website strive online.
As always, we appreciate your business and will continue to develop ways to better serve you.
The Sliqua Labs Team
Alexander McMillen, Joe Cooter, Jeff Johnston, Amin Murad
1-877-4-SLIQUA / Intl: 1-703-621-4813
support@sliqua.com