Thursday, March 18th, 2010
NOT a typo.. 30x is measurable, well-documented, and easily tested. This is what open-source is about. I haven’t had time to post much the past year, I’m always working! So I wanted to make up for that by publishing an article on a topic that would blow your mind and be something that you could actually start using and really get some benefit out of it. This is one of those articles that the majority of web hosting companies would love to see in paperback, so they could burn it.
Tags: Advanced, Apache, askapache, Backups, Bandwidth, Boot, Cache, chmod, console, devshm, DreamHost, File System, filesystem, grep, Hard Drive, HowTo, HTTPS SSL, ionice, Linux, memory bandwidth, mysql, Private Server, ram, rsync, Scripts, Security, server, servers, Shell, shell script, SLRAM, SPEED, speed improvements, SSI, stat, SymLinks, tmpfs, trick, Vulnerability, Web Hosting, webhosts, WordPress, WP-Super Cache
Posted in Apache, Cache, DNS, DreamHost, Featured, Hacking, Htaccess, Linux Unix BSD, Mod_Rewrite, PHP, Security, Server Administration, Shell Scripting, Web Design, Web Hosting, Web Tools, Webmaster, WiredTree, WordPress, WordPress Plugins | 7 Comments »
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
There are so many WordPress plugins out there now that I wanted to post my favorite 3 plugins for speeding up a WP-Powered blog. These are the 3 plugins that I install for pretty much all of my WP-Powered sites, which I run about 300 now. They work together to provide a very optimized blog for speed.
DB-Cache Reloaded does something entirely different, it saves the mysql queries that are made to the WP-database, as well as the mysql results to static files, and then through php serves those cached-files instead of re-querying the mysql database. Most mysql databases are stored on separate servers, and although many are on the same local network there is a limit to how many queries, and how many connections can take place.
So DB-Cache Reloaded basically makes WP-Super Cache work alot faster when generating the cache files, and DB-Cache Reloaded helps in a number of areas un-related to WP-Super Cache, like in the admin panel. And DB-Cache without WP-Super-Cache is a joke because it still uses the application-level and php for everything. Gotta use both (or just WPSC).
Tags: admin, Apache, askapache, AskApache Crazy Cache, Bandwidth, Bottleneck, Cache, caching, compression, Dig, filesystem, GET, httpd, mysql, Networking, password, PHP, post, Private Server, ram, Scripts, server, servers, SPEED, SSI, stat, Web Hosting, WordPress, WordPress Optimizing, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Speed, WP-Super Cache
Posted in Apache, Cache, Featured, Mod_Rewrite, Review, Server Administration, Web Hosting, Webmaster, WordPress, WordPress Plugins | 14 Comments »
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
This simple unix shell script automatically creates backups of a specific folder at regular hourly, nightly, weekly, and monthly intervals. Instead of the usual method for copying directory trees using tar with fifo, pipes, rsync, or NFS methods this script uses cpio which is much much faster and has cool options like saving m/a/c times, symlinks, relative paths, and weird file names.
Tags: Apache, askapache, Backups, bash, chmod, DreamHost, fifo, GET, Hacking, Linux, Nice, Perl, Port, post, Private Server, Renice, rsync, Scripts, Security, server, servers, Shell, shell script, SymLinks, tutorial, Web Hosting
Posted in DreamHost, Linux Unix BSD, Shell Scripting, Web Hosting | 1 Comment »
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
DreamHost PS gives you your own “virtual machine”, protecting your CPU and RAM on your physical machine for faster websites. Here’s what I like and dislike about DreamHostPS, and some of the issues and solutions for migrating.
Tags: 500, 503, Advanced, Apache, askapache, Backups, bash, Boot, caching, compression, DNS, DreamHost, errordocument, GET, Google, grep, Htaccess, htaccess files, httpd, HTTPS SSL, Linux, Login, Logs, Nice, password, Perl, PHP, Port, Private Server, Prompt, ram, Renice, Scripts, Security, server, servers, Shell, shell script, SSH, SSI, stat, Username, Web Hosting
Posted in DreamHost, Web Hosting | 14 Comments »