re and new cached items fill their vacated memory slots; usually the new item is slightly smaller than the old item, and the leftover space may be too small for a new cache item. Fragmentation can cause even a large amount of free memory to be unavailable for new cache items. That is why I say above you can avoid fragmentation by doubling the apc.shm_size in relation to the largest total memory usage you see. So you may want to start with 100MB, … 6, 0, 0, 0 and 15.92
Remote publishing to WordPress from Facebook via RSS
Most WordPress developers know you can use one of several plugins to publish from WordPress to a Facebook wall, app or fan page. Did you know you can also do the opposite? You can publish from Facebook to WordPress by using the FeedWordPress plugin and the RSS feed from your fan page. This can be handy for clients who want to keep their site updated with blog posts, or share links and information, but don’t necessarily want to spend the ti… 6, 0, 0, 0 and 14.17
Social Media — Facebook, Twitter, Blogging and Sharing
…n your site and other platforms) and email updates, and the management of all this online communication becomes daunting. What if there were a way to integrate all of your modes of online presence, so you’d only have to post once to update all of the different platforms? Well, the short answer is: there is. I’ve been working with a local organic farm to update their online presence, and we’ve come up with a very simple implement… 2, 0, 0, 0 and 4.72
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
Résumé
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 … 1, 0, 0, 0 and 2.87
Tuning Apache and MySQL for Best Performance in a Shared Virtual Hosting Environment
… Traffic from Affecting the Server Before you begin performance tuning, please consider using a stateful packet inspection (SPI) firewall & login failure daemon (LFD) for your server: ConfigServer Firewall is an excellent free firewall & lfd. This will help prevent brute force probes, port flooding, DDOS, etc. If you have 600 virtual hosts running on a server, it is very likely that the server is experiencing constant malicious exploits, … 1, 0, 0, 0 and 2.58
WordPress with W3 Total Cache on Nginx with APC (Virtualmin)
… you are permitted to set up Virtualmin on a second server for testing and migration. I run the extra Virtualmin Pro system on a VPS that I use for backups, slave DNS, and testing. The Nginx modules are also available for the free Virtualmin GPL version. To install the modules, go to Virtualmin Package Updates (wbm-virtualmin-nginx and wbm-virtualmin-nginx-ssl). WordPress Plugins for this Setup W3 Total Cache — adds opcode cache, minificat… 1, 0, 0, 0 and 2.58
Image Manipulation in WordPress Editor – Crop, Rotate, Resize Images
WordPress has a very nice and simple editor that uses TinyMCE. As of WP 2.8, there is a load of new functionality in the image uploading and management department, with the new Gallery functionality. I like the way WordPress handles all of the image files attached to a post… it lends itself to slideshows, etc. But recently I had a question about rotating images within the editor, and I went searching for a plugin to do it… and found … 1, 0, 0, 0 and 2.36
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How to Configure APC Cache on Virtual Servers with PHP running under FCGId November 8, 2010 -
WordPress with W3 Total Cache on Nginx with APC (Virtualmin) March 12, 2012 -
Organic Farm Website with Slideshows and Content Management November 13, 2009 -
Remote publishing to WordPress from Facebook via RSS July 25, 2011 -
Load Balancing Virtualmin WordPress Hosting Server with Varnish on AWS May 17, 2012
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Load Balancing Virtualmin WordPress Hosting Server with Varnish on AWS May 17, 2012 -
Automated WordPress Installation Via Custom Virtualmin Script Installer May 17, 2012 -
Professional Social Network May 3, 2012 -
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WordPress with W3 Total Cache on Nginx with APC (Virtualmin) March 12, 2012
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