Chris Gilligan Information Architect, Web Server Administrator, Media Producer web • video • print chris [at] chrisgilligan [dot] net chrisgilligan.com I design and produce information and communication media for corporate, small business, manufacturing and non-profit clients: web sites Information architecture and design for open source content management systems Linux Apache MySQL PHP web server administration Postfix Dovecot Sendmail mail … 18, 0, 0, 0 and 19.11
Farm to Table Restaurant Website
Joe Naturals Farm Store Cafe is a “farm to table” cafe and natural foods store located in historic Leiper’s Fork, near Franklin, TN. The owners contacted me through a fellow farmer with whom I have worked on several web projects. Joe Natural's website The website project was languishing, after being abandoned by a designer who lacked knowledge of WordPress template coding. The site needed better integration with WordPress, … 3, 1, 0, 0 and 11.36
Organic Farm Website with Slideshows and Content Management
Sequatchie Cove Farm website This site was produced in tandem with Widgets & Stone, a Chattanooga design firm. We’re members of Sequatchie Cove Farm’s Community Shared Agriculture program, so we are very familiar with the quality of the eggs, dairy, meat and produce coming out of the clean and fertile Sequatchie Valley. (Will Work for Food!) WordPress Content Management System allows the farmers to easily add their opinions, inf… 1, 2, 0, 0 and 11.09
Professional Social Network
Professional Social Networks are the next frontier on the web. You have probably heard of LinkedIn, but the new paradigm is industry-specific and profession-specific networks. Using SocialEngine Community Software, and deployed in a robust Cloud Formation on Amazon Web Services, Web-N-Map Solutions has created a powerful educational and promotional platform. DentalJugaad.com is a Professional Social Network for dentistry professionals, students,… 6, 0, 0, 0 and 6.16
Landscape Architect Website with Slideshows & Social Media Integration
Craig Design Group Website This is a simple website for a Chattanooga based landscape architect that focuses on beautiful portfolio slideshows. We’ve also added Twitter and Facebook integration to keep fans and customers updated on the latest projects. … 1, 1, 0, 0 and 5
Apache and MySql Performance Tuning for High Traffic Website
SoccerNews.com is a high traffic WordPress site with over 600,000 unique visitors and over 2,000,000 page impressions per month. It is a content republisher and aggregator, presenting custom XML feeds for (what else?) soccer news from all over the world. The site has a very active user base, providing content in the forms of editorials and comments on news items. Advertising and sponsored referrals provide the revenue stream. SoccerNews.com webs… 3, 0, 2, 0 and 4.62
Non-profit website with Calendar and Slideshows
Sequatchie Valley Institute website I visited Sequatchie Valley Institute years ago with my children, and made a long-term goal to some day live and work with the folks I met there. We use the web extensively to communicate with our members, the public, and the media. SlideShowPro Director provides an engaging and easily-updated frontpage show, and a gallery of current and past events Event Calendar manages our online calendar Registration form… 1, 1, 0, 0 and 4.36
Punk Rock Music Community
Punktastic.com is a community powered site that covers punk music in Britain, but is poised to go worldwide. They cover punk and hardcore shows and festivals, and provide album reviews, video interviews and more. With a growing audience and user base, Punktastic needed a more reliable and robust web server, so they made the move to a dedicated CentOS 5 series web server with 3GB RAM. While this is a relatively low-end box, it has plenty of horse… 4, 0, 0, 0 and 4.1
APC Cache Considerations for Virtual Hosting Environments
the case with a commodity shared hosting server, this will use a lot of memory, and you will need somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-30GB apc.shm_size if you attempt to configure a single APC cache for the entire server. My web hosting server is for a small number of personal clients, so I adjust the APC settings for each individual account, depending on the number and type of PHP script packages running on the account. These accounts are all a… 3, 0, 1, 0 and 3.85
How to Configure APC Cache on Virtual Servers with PHP running under FCGId
t is not possible to filter out an entire PHP script package, component or plugin based on the directory where it resides. So if you do not wish to use APC cache on a particular script package, you should run it in a separate website. Some PHP script packages such as Gallery2 have an incredibly large number of .php, .inc and .class files which will be cached, so it is difficult to find them all and filter them all using apc.filters. If you can… 2, 0, 2, 0 and 3.59
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