Something we’ve been playing with for a while… global gzip / deflate compression on apache servers. Naturally you can do this in php or via .htaccess but why not do it globally from the apache configuration?
Decided to give it a whirl on some of our own dedicated servers the other day.
Dowsides:

Increases CPU load
Increases CPU load
Increases [...]

These things come in cycles but it seems as if the dreaded FTP hackers are back. Inserting malware in the form of hidden iframes, unescaped javascript into people’s sites via their own FTP details. No brute force, no server exploits, just logging in as the owner and adding the details to the bottom of (usually) [...]

We thought we would publish some benchmarks of our latest generation of 3dpixel.net servers for both personal and dedicated customers.
Our primary aims are to:
a) increase performance
b) reduce power consumption
To this end, we are gradually replacing our Dual Core Nocona Xeon Servers with SCSI drives to Quad Core Harpertown Xeon Servers with the latest SSD drives [...]