Post by AskApache Oct 10, 20094 comments
To prepare for several upcoming articles on AskApache that are focused on optimizing Servers and Sites from a server admin level, here is an article to introduce the main tools that we will be using. These tools are used to optimize CPU time for each process using nice and renice, and other tools like ionice are used to optimize the Disk IO, or Disk speed / Disk traffic for each process. Then you can make sure your mysqld and httpd processes are always fast and prioritized.
Category: Optimization
Post by AskApache Apr 01, 200827 comments
A WordPress plugin that caches your entire blog for WP-Cache, I love this plugin and finally released it to the public!
Category: WordPress
Post by AskApache Jan 30, 200810 comments
Host Google Analytics ga.js file locally for increased speed! Makes web pages load faster.
Category: Google
Post by AskApache Jun 01, 20071 comment
High Performance Web Site list of the best and newest methods to make web pages super fast using caching, compression, cache-control, etc.
Category: Optimization
Post by AskApache May 04, 20074 comments
An Image Sprite is simply multiple images combined into one image. Using the background-position in CSS you can display a specific image from the image sprite.
Sprites reduce the number of files that are requested and downloaded by site visitors, resulting in noticeable decreases in Page-Loading times, Bandwidth usage, and Server loads.
Category: CSS
