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 … 10, 0, 0, 0 and 23.14
How to Configure APC Cache on Virtual Servers with PHP running under FCGId
plained Fragmentation is a measure of the non-available portion of apc.shm_size due to lack of contiguous memory large enough to accept new cache items. 100% fragmentation means the available memory is broken into hundreds of small pieces that are too small to accept new cache items. This occurs when cached items expire and new cached items fill their vacated memory slots; usually the new item is slightly smaller than the old item, and the leftov… 7, 0, 0, 0 and 16.18
Remote publishing to WordPress from Facebook via RSS
to keep their site updated with blog posts, or share links and information, but don’t necessarily want to spend the time to post with WordPress. Let’s face it, Facebook is convenient to use to share a link, upload small photos and video, or write a brief update. Your Blog is Hungry FeedWordPress is a plugin that pulls content from an RSS feed and publishes articles as WordPress posts. It is somewhat complex to set up properly, so I wo… 3, 0, 1, 0 and 6.48
WordPress Content Management
If you don’t need the power of a full-blown Content Management System, and want a site that’s easier to manage, WordPress is a great choice. It’s just right for small businesses , churches and non-profit or service organizations. WordPress can also be combined with an existing website to add news, weblink and weblog functions. WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and us… 3, 0, 0, 0 and 6.43
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 5.45
Apache and MySql Performance Tuning for High Traffic Website
…ction 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’s Internet climate. Popular sites that do not have a solid security and load balancing strategy are subject to crippling traffic from the Internet’s millions of malicious and compromised servers and personal computers. … 1, 0, 1, 0 and 5.03
About
I’ve been building websites and since the early days of the world wide web. I know where it came from, and where it’s going. I can handle any level of website from a single page to a fully secure online business system. My clients include mid-size corporations, manufacturers, non-profit organizations, developers and independent businesses in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. I may work alone to create a small site, or collaborat… 2, 0, 0, 0 and 3.56
Punk Rock Music Community
c 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 horsepower for a single WordPress site and phpBB3 forum. Punktastic.com web site For this GIG, I soloed on… transferring the site from a WAMP development server to the live LAMP server configuring an active firewall to block the baddies installing monitoring a… 1, 0, 0, 0 and 3.28
APC Cache Considerations for Virtual Hosting Environments
…hared 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 administered by myself, not b… 1, 0, 0, 0 and 1.89
Joomla Content Management
…rtals can be expensive I’m set to change all that. Joomla open-source CMS solutions are different from the normal models for portal software. For a start, they are not complicated. They are developed with non-technical business users in mind, for reliability and ease of use. Our solutions don’t require the user or administrator of the system to know HTML. I can configure CMS for any level of website. From a simple site with several s… 1, 0, 0, 0 and 1.67
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How to Configure APC Cache on Virtual Servers with PHP running under FCGId November 8, 2010 -
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Load Balancing Virtualmin WordPress Hosting Server with Varnish on AWS May 17, 2012 -
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WordPress with W3 Total Cache on Nginx with APC (Virtualmin) March 12, 2012
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