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W3Counter Grows Again

July 17, 2008

It’s been about 7 months since W3Counter’s last hardware upgrade, adding a beefy dual-processor dual-core server to the mix. Now, 6,000 new active accounts later, the site’s slowing down during the day again, which means there’s not enough memory and IO bandwidth to go around. I just ordered two more powerful servers from SoftLayer. One [...]

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Discover Semantic: Search semantic web topics

March 19, 2008

Inspired by this article at Read/Write Web, I decided to make a search engine out of one of my bookmark collections. Discover Semantic searches about 70 sites dealing with the semantic web (aka “web 3.0″). It covers W3 recommendations, specifications, tools, tutorials, and dozens of blogs about semweb.
If nothing else, it was interesting [...]

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Multiple local websites with Apache in Windows

August 25, 2007

Recently I’ve been working on 3 or 4 projects at the same time on my desktop. While my primary IDE has changed to Visual Studio (even for PHP with VS.PHP), the rest of my development environment is mostly the same as it’s been since December. My projects are growing in code size, and the amount [...]

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Reduce Load By Storing Sessions in Memory

June 1, 2007

Another quick tip for reducing server load: keep your sessions in memory instead of on disk. For a dynamic, high traffic site, like a very active message board, your disk is already busy handling all the database work. Take some load off it by moving session storage to memory.

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Dedicated Server Setup Checklist

March 18, 2007

You’ve outgrown shared hosting and decided to start renting a server of your own. Since you’re still on a tight budget, you want an unmanaged server, where full responsibility for configuring and managing the server is yours. These are the steps I go through every time I set up a new server for web and [...]