August 16, 2010 – 9:27 pm
I won’t go into too many details, I got everything I learned from google and my customisations aren’t very ground breaking. Jdub tweeted about the wordpress apc object cache being updated. So I (re)installed that. I had it installed a while ago, but a wordpress upgrade broke it. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/apc/ Everyone knows about wp-super-cache, and there’s [...]
August 13, 2010 – 8:28 am
Many years ago, I was a rabid (vapid?) PostgreSQL fanboi. I took the time to study how to tune postgres, it was very rewarding to see queries go from taking 30 seconds, to completing in under a second. This involved tuning knobs in the prostres config, to adding indexes. All done manually. If some software [...]
I recently swapped over from lighty to nginx, and man, am I glad I did. I have no idea about the internals, which is faster, lighter, better, etc, but nginx is way more intuitive to configure. Which in the end means my server is set up better. That kick started my latest obsession, speeding up [...]