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 [...]
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 [...]
I left a few things unsaid in my previous post basic hostname set up, and after talking with some people about /etc/hosts, I thought a quick follow up is in order. Firstly, my preference is to use the ethernet’s ip address to tie the host name to the FQDN, but others like to use 127.0.1.1. [...]
I was helping out someone with a postfix issue, and something just clicked that will speed up diagnosing similar problems. It’s not so much a postfix problem as a hostname problem, and it’s very basic. The symptom was, mail sent to the server at domain.com was being bounced. Looking at postfix logs, postfix was trying [...]