ore plugins/mods/components you add to a PHP software package, the more scripts, database queries and objects will be cached. If you have PHP scripts or plugins that do not need to be cached (low traffic pages such as contact forms, PHP scripts that do not have APC hooks and have their own caching schemes, dynamic image resizers, etc.), you can filter them out with simple RegEx: apc.filters = “-/home/username/public_html/apc\.php$,-/home/username… 9, 0, 2, 0 and 23.49
Tuning Apache and MySQL for Best Performance in a Shared Virtual Hosting Environment
Sane Way (Requires Basic Math Skills) If you wish to tune your Apache MPM settings, you should consider following this method: https://telvps.com/clients/knowledgebase/25/HOW-TO-Optimize-Apache-for-Low-Memory-Usage.html (the formula works well for any level of traffic and memory). MySQL Tuning Is More Difficult: Trial and Error To test your MySQL cache variables, you may try mysqltuner: https://github.com/rackerhacker/MySQLTuner-perl This script… 8, 1, 1, 0 and 21.15
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… 2, 1, 1, 0 and 8.98
WordPress with W3 Total Cache on Nginx with APC (Virtualmin)
Virtualmin now includes support for Nginx web server. I deploy many WordPress sites with W3 Total Cache and APC Alternative PHP Cache, so I was very interested to see how Nginx performance compares to Apache for WordPress, and whether APC and W3TC would play nice with Nginx. I prefer to install WordPress in public_html/wordpress for ease of development, compatibility with other scripts, etc. Accordingly, the suggested configuration is for WordPr… 3, 0, 0, 0 and 6.37
Rafting and Adventure Travel Site with Reservation Form
Southeastern Expeditions website This site, for an adventure travel company that runs rafting and eco-tourism trips in North and Central America, features a clean interactive design and extensive search engine optimization, including tailored metatags, hyperlinks, and a backlink referral network. The site also features a simple reservation form that collects all information needed by booking specialists to bill for trip deposit and contact the c… 1, 1, 0, 0 and 6.07
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…ites Information architecture and design for open source content management systems Linux Apache MySQL PHP web server administration Postfix Dovecot Sendmail mail server administration DNS & Domain Name Registration LAMP performance tuning: Apache Prefork and Worker MPM, MySQL query cache, APC OpCode & User Cache Script and database-driven interactive technology using PHP, MySQL, Javascript, CSS video — delivered via DVD, CD, or web t… 2, 0, 0, 0 and 4.76
Art Competition with Submission Form
Zero Sum Website This is a project for Create Here, a Chattanooga think tank nonprofit that connects entrepreneurs and artists with creative communicators to promote sustainable, creative initiatives and showcases. Zero Sum is an exhibit that examines the role of games in contemporary culture and the impact they have on our social experience, psyche, morality and approach to critical thinking. Online forms for artistic submissions Database to c… 0, 1, 0, 0 and 4.05
Apache config for Worker MPM vs Prefork MPM
work with Worker MPM: http://www.virtualmin.com/node/15046 http://articles.slicehost.com/2010/5/19/configuring-the-apache-mpm-on-centos Un-Comment HTTPD=/usr/sbin/httpd.worker in /etc/sysconfig/httpd restart apache do some performance testing and raise your worker server and thread limits to sane levels in httpd.conf If you need to recompile Apache and PHP, then you should do more research. Recompiling is not a trivial process. I found that m… 1, 0, 1, 0 and 3.31
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
Industrial Galvanizer Website
Tennessee Galvanizing website Tennessee Galvanizing had an aging Joomla site that needed major software updates. So, I migrated the site to WordPress for ease of use and ease of updates. WordPress is much more user friendly than Joomla, and also easier to maintain. Simple WordPress site with front page slide show, news blog and contact form … 1, 0, 0, 0 and 2.02
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