{"id":1703,"date":"2013-12-20T23:18:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T23:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2024-04-17T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T19:32:00","slug":"eastern-pa-weather-authority-a-managed-hosting-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/eastern-pa-weather-authority-a-managed-hosting-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern PA Weather Authority: A Managed Hosting Case Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3625 skip_lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/epawa_logo_lrg.png\" alt=\"Eastern PA Weather Authority: A Managed Hosting Case Study\" width=\"500\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/epawa_logo_lrg.png 500w, https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/epawa_logo_lrg-300x85.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you seek a web host that manages your servers, look no further than InMotion Hosting&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/managed-hosting\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Managed Hosting Service<\/a>. Today, we turn our spotlight on the\u00a0<em>Eastern Pennsylvania Weather Authority (EPAWA)<\/em> website. The <em>EPAWA<\/em> website demonstrates the capabilities and reliability of our dedicated hosting solution.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>EPAWA<\/em> website provides daily forecasts, interactive radar, and analytical models for weather in the eastern portion of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Recent increases in viewership created challenges for them, causing them to turn to InMotion Hosting&#8217;s Managed Hosting team. The success of the <em>EPAWA <\/em>website\u00a0shows just what a managed hosting solution can do for a company&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<map id=\"m_Epawaimagemap\" name=\"m_Epawaimagemap\">\n<area title=\"Sidebar of the EPAWA website\" alt=\"Sidebar of the EPAWA website\" coords=\"336,191,492,632\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/epawa-sidebar.png\" target=\"_blank\" \/>\n<area title=\"Top of the content in page middle\" alt=\"Top of the content in page middle\" coords=\"0,191,327,694\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/epawa-middle.png\" target=\"_blank\" \/>\n<area title=\"Header of the EPAWA website\" alt=\"Header of the EPAWA website\" coords=\"0,0,493,174\" shape=\"rect\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/epawa-header.png\" target=\"_blank\" \/>\n <\/map>\n<h2>The Custom Managed Hosting Solution<\/h2>\n<p>Like all of the websites under their management, the Managed Hosting team continually monitors the <em>EPAWA <\/em>website to keep the server operating optimally. We set up our Elite Class Dedicated Servers so that they experience minimal downtime\u00a0while providing quality performance for their website.<\/p>\n<p>For <em>EPAWA<\/em>, we used the following tools to ensure proper website performance:<\/p>\n<h3>Varnish Caching<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.varnish-cache.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Varnish Cache<\/a> (also known as caching HTTP reverse proxy) is a web application accelerator designed to optimize HTTP requests. We installed Varnish on the front end of the server to cache the Website contents. It performed exceptionally, typically speeding up delivery with a factor of 300 \u2013 1000x, depending on server architecture. This helped to immediately bring\u00a0the server<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/server\/server-usage\/understanding-server-loads\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;s load down.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Apache DSO and mod_ruid<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/httpd.apache.org\/docs\/2.2\/dso.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apache DSO<\/a> (Dynamic Shared Objects) is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/choosing-the-best-php-handler\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PHP handler<\/a> that speeds up the server using opcode caches. The <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.cpanel.net\/twiki\/bin\/view\/EasyApache\/Apache\/ModRuid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apache module mod ruid2<\/a> is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/website-design\/controlling-user-executions-with-suexec\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suexec<\/a> module for Apache that causes forked Apache processes to run as a particular user. This allows PHP to run in DSO mode without the typical security problems of running PHP as DSO in an environment shared by multiple users.<\/p>\n<h3>Alternative PHP Cache (APC)<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/pecl.php.net\/package\/APC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PHP PECL module APC<\/a> is an Alternative PHP Cache. it allows the interpretation of PHP scripts to cache opcode. The module can cache things like database objects and full page views. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/speed-up-php-with-apc\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PHP code<\/a>\u00a0processes faster with APC which leads to better website performance.<\/p>\n<h3>Elite Class Server for Website<\/h3>\n<p>The website runs on an\u00a0Elite Class <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/dedicated-servers\">dedicated server<\/a>. We carefully optimized to the server to provide maximum performance.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intel Xeon X3440 @2.53Ghz<\/li>\n<li>4-Cores\/8-Threads<\/li>\n<li>RAM: 8GB<\/li>\n<li>Storage: 500GB 7.2K SATA2<\/li>\n<li>RAID-1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Managed Dedicated Hosting<\/h2>\n<p>With the installation of the server complete, our Managed Hosting technicians and support team can provide <em>EPAWA\u00a0<\/em>complete solutions, even when problematic issues such as high traffic requirements or server-side situations occur.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, each server can have different levels of support as per the needs of the customer. Thousands of customers in eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware rely on the information provided by the <em>EPAWA website, <\/em>and now they can rest assured that their favorite source of weather information will always be available whenever they need it.<\/p>\n<p>How do your customers feel about access to your site? Need a little more peace of mind? Then you, too, should try out and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/managed-hosting\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">learn more<\/a> about our Managed Hosting service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you seek a web host that manages your servers, look no further than InMotion Hosting&#8217;s\u00a0Managed Hosting Service. Today, we turn our spotlight on the\u00a0Eastern Pennsylvania Weather Authority (EPAWA) website. The EPAWA website demonstrates the capabilities and reliability of our dedicated hosting solution. 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