Archive for May, 2008

Yay S3!

Posted by admin on 30th May , 2008

Well, in another modification to wordpress, I’m hosting my CSS/images on Amazon’s S3 Service :D. The cool thing is that it seems to be faster, because Amazon hosts files on multiple, high end servers it can serve files a lot faster then my server can. It’s also rather inexpensive, for example, if someone loaded my [...]

MySQL Qcache aaand PHP XCache

Posted by admin on 25th May , 2008

If you haven’t noticed, everything loads MUCH faster, thanks too MySQL Qcache: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/query-cache-status-and-maintenance.html and XCache for PHP: http://xcache.lighttpd.net/At first, I was using APC for PHP cache, but it caused php to segfault a LOT (500 errors are really annoying..), then I tried eAccelerator, which flat out didn’t work. Turk MMcache dosen’t work on php5, and [...]

Moar ramz!

Posted by admin on 16th May , 2008

Well, if anyone even notices, my blog was down for a bit this morning while my host doubled the RAM on my server from 512MB to 1GB, and so far things seem to be loading a bit faster :). The great thing is that I only paid a one time fee of about $50 for [...]

Net Neutrality

Posted by admin on 9th May , 2008

As anyone who uses the internet knows, net neutrality is a big deal right now, with Comcast messing with people’s [legal and illegal] bittorrent, providers slowing competitors products down in hopes that people will start using theirs, and very recently, microsoft’s censorship of youtube links over MSN and all that.
Wikipedia defines “Network Neutrality” as [...]

Sum Vacation Pics

Posted by admin on 8th May , 2008

I know I told everyone I’d post pics of my vacation, and I finally have some, right here:
These are mostly from when we drove through Las Vegas, and some when we got closer to Zion national park. I’ll try to dig more up later, but right now I think I’ll go to bed

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