Posts tagged with: performance

Well, after running with ALL options in the wp_options table set to no for autoload for about 3 days, I can say it doesn't really make much difference. If anything, there may be a slight decrease in performance, but nothing broke that I could see, and there really wasn't a significant difference in memory usage either. I've reverted back to the original settings. I'll have to dabble with the Wordpress code itself to see if there are any global variables that don't really need to be global at all. I've done some initial investigation and there are tons of stuff ... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 21 Mar 2008 - 25 Mar 2008: Paper Enigma Machine - What a brilliant idea, and a great teaching tool too. Sun turns to lasers to speed up computer chips - Now this would be brilliant if Sun research proves to be a success. Sun's continually proving it is light years (excuse the pun) ahead of everyone else in the processor business and this is just another example. Australian WiMAX pioneer trashes technology as "miserable failure" - I wonder how many more people are going to come forward now and bring their problems to light. All... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 20 Feb 2008 - 1 Mar 2008: MySQL InnoDB Performance Tuning for the Solaris 10 OS - It's not been long since the finalisation of Sun's acquisition of MySQL and performance tuning docs are already starting to come to light. Network in a Box (Creating real network on your laptop) - Create a real network comprising of Hosts, Switches and Routers as a Virtual Network on a any computer using OpenSolaris (w/ Project Crossbow) and zones. Pretty impressive stuff here, and full instructions too. Playing with ZFS, USB memory disks and VMware Fusion - Demo ZFS... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 18 Oct 2007 - 7 Nov 2007: System Profiling 101 : Getting started using sys_diag v.7.04 - A very useful performance gathering script that used Dtrace, amongst other tools to gather performance information Sun sues NetApp, California style - Well, if the previous case wasn't enough to let NetApp know Sun are serious, this one probably will. Sun's ZFS is close to perfect, but widely misunderstood - How's this for a rave review of ZFS. If you've tried ZFS, read this article and get out there and play with it. It's in OS X Leopard, FreeBSD,... Continue reading ►

First, some clarification. YSlow is a pluggin for Firebug, not Firefox. It's installed as a Firefox pluggin, but it actually enhances Firebug. Accordingly it requires Firebug to be installed. YSlow adds a new YSlow tab to Firebug and in this tab it rates your page on the scale A to F, based on compliance with Yahoo's performance rules and provides a link to each rule, and lists each component it believes could be improved. Each of these "rules" have their own weighting too. This all sounds good, so I thought I'd put it to the test against my sites to see what it had to offer, and see what changes I could make to improve the overall impression of the performance of my sites. Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 29 May 2007 - 7 July 2007: Sun eyes supercomputing glory - If Sun can get this out before IBM's BlueGene/P, we may be in for a good supercomputer battle. GNU Free Software License Gets Upgrade to Meet Modern Demands - Germany adopts "anti-hacker" law; critics say it breeds insecurity - Hmmm, I know some security experts who won't be allowed to do their work in Germany now. Grade Your Website: 31 Free Online Tests - Some really useful tools here. Imitation (from IBM) is the sincerest form of flattery - A great summary of ... Continue reading ►

I've had enough of the crap performance, poor customer service, incompetent technical staff and childish forum administrators over at Site5, so I've decided to cut my losses and move over to TextDrive. I think TextDrive will suit my needs more and it's run by a professional team of techies who seem to know how to treat their customers and run a business. And from the look of the forums, it seems most of the customers are technically competent too. There's even an added bonus, everything will be running on Solaris/OpenSolaris soon - even the shared hosting. Brilliant!!! I'm impressed... Continue reading ►

With the recent outages and performance issues I've been having, I decided to find a tool that I can use to monitor the status of my websites that doesn't actually rely on these sites. The idea being that I can gather enough stats to take back to Site5 showing them how poor things have been, if the problems persist. I needed something that reported not only availability, but performance too. So I turned to my trusty friend, Google, and after some extensive searching, and I happened to find mon.itor.us which seemed to suit my needs, and best of all, it ... Continue reading ►

Yesterday, MySQL on the server I host on at Site5 crashed and accordingly rendered this, and several other of my sites useless. I noticed this at about 9am UK time and very promptly logged a service ticket to get this rectified. I waited and waited and waited, and eventually turned to using the forums to see if anyone else was noticing this, and also because the Site5 personal seem to monitor this more closely than their own service ticket system. Continue reading ►