There are a raft of ways to speed up web sites. There are popular ways, like caching the compiled code with apc or similar. People try swapping out their web server, for faster ones. Then you can cache whole web pages, or sql queries, or even more complex partial parts of pages. Then you can […]
If you think your website is fast enough, think again. Slow web pages lose customers experts at websiteoptimization.com have to say about the topic: Google found that moving from a 10-result page loading in 0.4 seconds to a 30-result page loading in 0.9 seconds decreased traffic and ad revenues by 20% (Linden 2006). When the […]
new relic is a cloud offering, that help monitor and graph your server internals. You can get web response times, broken down into internet/database/php times, etc I am using this for a few other customers new relic is free – but they limit functionality, and only keep 24 hours of data – but that is […]
Human error, contract problems, payment problems, DOS (server attacks) etc etc. . can all lead to downtime, lost data, and damage to your brand. Business owners need to contemplate strategies to guard against these. The idea is to plan ahead, and have plans and strategies to deal with any issues. cloudconstulant helping out cloud/web business’s […]
When your site become more than trivial, shared hosting $4.95 plans just dont cut the mustard. When your site hits even more users, just opting for dedicated servers is not enough either. You need to optimize several layers. The idea is to make best use of resources. Reduce the size/time of web pages. Then using […]
It seems amazon had a cloud outage of up to 72 hours. It was something to do with their storage servers, something failed in one data centre, it started to re-replicate from other data centres. The re-replication overloaded other storage servers, and the network between them. The outage then began to effect more data centres, […]
This is a big deal Aussie website, hosted by rackspace. I enquired with rackspace, and this is the conversation … oops …. glad its not my website. They probably do have good uptime, but no-one is perfect. You need to have plans around a supplier outage, and also have plans to move to another provider […]