Some of you may have already noticed from my Twitter feed, but I’ve started a complete re-write of pleskhacker.com in an easier-to-use format. The old site was done in Dokuwiki, and I found that it didn’t scale too well. The new site uses Wordpress, and the performance is already improving.
Another improvement to the [...]
After working with some RHEL 5 servers fairly regularly, I noticed a reduction in Apache 2.2 performance when many connections were made to the server. There were messages like these streaming into the access_log as well:
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Aug/2008:12:00:10 -0400] “GET / HTTP/1.0″ 200 2269 “-” “Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) (internal dummy connection)”
127.0.0.1 - - [...]
I’ve decided to adjust the look of this blog to make it easier to read and faster to download. My old Mandigo theme was great, but it required each user to download about 200kb worth of content to see the blog. The new theme is about 30-40kb per download and it renders faster [...]
Most web developers expend a lot of energy optimizing queries, reducing the overhead of functions, and streamlining their application’s overall flow. However, many forget that one of the simplest adjustments is the compression of data as it leaves the web server.
Luckily, mod_deflate makes this easy, and the Apache documentation has a handy initial configuration [...]
After a quick review of the stats this evening, I found that this blog has made it to 500,000 sessions so far this year. Page views are just past 2.5 million! In 2007, there were over 65,000 sessions and over 427,000 million page views in 2007 as a final count.
Here’s the exact numbers [...]
