Our Technology
Leanservers' Web, Email and DNS hosting services are built on top of well-known open source software. Our infrastructure runs on a combination of different Linux flavors where each service is periodically optimized to deliver the best performance it virtually could.
Some of the technologies that we are currently using include:
NGINX is a web server known for its astonishing performance and small footprint. This is exactly why we chose it to be our core technology: it suits extremely well in shared environments. Why? Because RAM is the single biggest hardware issue affecting web server performance (ref) and NGINX uses significantly less RAM than others.
Its development begun on 2002 and today is used by some high-traffic sites such as:
WordPress, Hulu, Github, Ohloh, SourceForge and TorrentReactor. More info.
PHP-FPM is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with extra features that translate into a performance boost for sites running on it. Its development started back in 2004 and since May 2010 it has been added into PHP's core. More info.
MySQL is the most popular open source database system and can be considered as the Internet de facto. It is currently being used in a number of high-profile websites such as Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Google, Wikipedia, and others. More info.
PowerDNS is one of the most popular open source DNS servers used by Wikimedia to handle all their DNS traffic.
It offers a very high domain resolution performance and supports a large number of different backends. More info.
qmail is mail server software (i.e. Mail Transfer Agent) than runs on Unix. And the second most popular on the Internet. It was written by Daniel J. Bernstein as a more secure alternative to Sendmail. When it was released qmail was significantly faster than Sendmail, especially for resource intensive tasks such as mailing list management. More info.
Postfix is also mail server software which was developed as a faster, easier-to-administer and more secure alternative to Sendmail. We use it in combination with qmail (and others) to provide reliable email hosting services. More info.
