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 […]
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 […]
The reason most think emailing passwords is bad, is because someone might be eaves dropping on the conversation. The real reason is, that its very hard to authenticate the request. Is it really your mate on skype or on email ? or someone that has gained access to his PC, and now trying to get […]
Need the perfect fake ID – look no further. Every week I see some sort of new scam on facebook. The tools and avenues available to people for scamming is astounding. This is the most insidious URL I have come across in a while. Imagine, your an internet scammer, you need a new ID for every scam. […]
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 not a funky – ‘did you know’ vid – its realistic, business focussed, numbers of users, $$$ involved. Some take outs : – android is outselling iphone. – Apple is worth more than either google and facebook, $283billion , 67% revenue growth – facebook/twitter advertising is proportionately cheap still , compared to other media – […]