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Website Improvements: RunCloud.io, OVH, BunnyCDN and Redis Cache

Quite a few back-end improvements to the vSkilled.com website this week. For starters the website was moved to a new server on OVH Public Cloud and it's…

Karl NyenGeneral1 min readFrom the archive
RunCloud server dashboard for the OVH-hosted web server

Quite a few back-end improvements to the vSkilled.com website this week.

For starters the website was moved to a new server on OVH Public Cloud and it’s running RunCloud.io for management.

The website also runs in a dual-CDN configuration using both Cloudflare and BunnyCDN. Cloudflare acts as the primary web proxy while BunnyCDN serves up the media lightning quick.

vSkilled is now also using Redis Cache which has significantly improved the page loads as well as keeps the server load down.

Thank you to these companies for offering superior products and services.

Karl Nyen

Writing about virtualization, home lab, cloud, storage and gaming on vSkilled, started in 2014.

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