Web hosting has changed dramatically in the last few years. The majority of accounts are now running PHP scripts and MySQL, whereas in the past most accounts were only serving static HTML files. This presents challenges in security as well as performance tuning. It is impossible to predict whether a certain configuration will work properly for a given server, unless the hardware, software, accounts, network and traffic are identical to a previou… 11, 2, 0, 0 and 25.16
APC Cache Considerations for Virtual Hosting Environments
APC cache does not work well in a virtual hosting environment unless PHP is running as FCGID, and every individual virtual host has a unique PHP.ini and a unique fcgiwrapper. This is not the case with many virtual hosting environments because the memory and CPU requirements are too great. I suggest using Virtualmin for a shared hosting environment with APC cache, because it does allow to set php.ini and fcgiwrapper for every individual virtual h… 6, 0, 1, 0 and 14.22
Apache and MySql Performance Tuning for High Traffic Website
…ilure Daemon to block malicious IP addresses, malware servers, bad bots, content scrapers, etc. Many of the problems leading to site crashes were due to constant bad bot traffic, security probes and Denial of Service attacks. Connection Tracking in the firewall now limits the amount of resources a single legitimate IP address can monopolize, in addition to blacklisting attackers. This is the first step to proper web server performance in today… 3, 1, 0, 0 and 9.57
Résumé
torial, corporate publications Education Bachelor of Arts, Humanities: University of Tennessee, 1989 Work Self-employed March, 2008 – present Internet Developer Open source content management systems Web server and hosting administration, vacantserver.net and 223hosting.com Tech support and training for clients CTC Technologies / Chattanooga Online , Chattanooga, TN February, 2007 – March, 2008 Internet Architect Website design, w… 5, 0, 0, 0 and 8.77
Load Balancing Virtualmin WordPress Hosting Server with Varnish on AWS
I am creating a true load balancer topography for a WordPress hosting server, if it needs to scale up beyond what the current system can handle. Scaling Levels The current system is the “admin” path shown in the diagram, with no CDN or Load Balancing. It will handle a lot of traffic, but it is somewhat vulnerable to failure and overload. A simple and inexpensive extension of this system is to add CloudFront CDN, the “beta users… 3, 0, 0, 0 and 5.51
How to Configure APC Cache on Virtual Servers with PHP running under FCGId
…ng overall server performance. Joomla and PHPbb have code that is pre-optimized with hooks for APC, but WordPress requires a plugin called W3 Total Cache. First Things First Please read my posts about APC on commodity virtual hosting servers and Apache and MySQL performance tuning before you begin. If you are running your virtual servers under FCGId, then you should do so for all virtual servers on your machine. Why? Because then you do not need … 3, 0, 0, 0 and 5.17
Web Hosting
Decades of experience hosting websites, from small local sites with only a few html pages, to high-traffic sites with thousands of users and pages. Dedicated Server Custom-built to your needs and specifications, hosted in a secure and speedy U.S. data center Amazon AWS Scalable to any level of traffic, using Amazon’s EC2 virtual servers, Load Balancing, RDS MySQL, S3 Storage, Cloudfront Cache, and more Virtual Private Server Slice… 3, 0, 0, 0 and 4.72
Remote publishing to WordPress from Facebook via RSS
…er of the content being syndicated in that feed. You will get a RSS URL: http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=195534004499&format=rss20 If your feed’s language needs to be adjusted, for instance if your site is hosted in Netherlands but your audience is in U.S., you will need to add a locale parameter to the feed URL: http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=195534004499&format=rss20&locale-en_US Try it in Firefox or NetNe… 2, 0, 0, 0 and 4.05
Cpanel Mailman mailing lists: cannot manage lists after migrating to new host
We recently migrated 2 Cpanel servers to VPS. Most things migrated properly and without incident. However, Mailman mailing lists were the exception. Mailing lists appear to have migrated properly, as they show up under WHM and Cpanel and usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/list_lists However, when cpanel user clicks Manage link, the following message appears: cpanel1.hosting.com mailing lists – Admin Links No such list listname_domainnam… 0, 1, 0, 0 and 4.05
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, 0, 0, 0 and 2.36
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