a different kind of development with an attitude
Chris has an excellent post on configuration parameters for Apache and MySQL to help save memory. This was specifically used be another Slicehoster and it seemed to work wonders for me. MySQL memory usage is down 50%.
Only downside is you lose InnoDB usage. But what the hell.
Speaking of which, I think I should offload all my RSS feeds to feedburner. Another avenue to save bandwidth usage on my Slice.
Posted in Server, slicehost · November 20th, 2008 · Comments (1)
Got a user setup specifically for access to the directory serving all the www files by Apache. Used rssh to secure that new user’s shell to only allow SFTP. Next stop is to chroot and jail the directory.
Posted in Server · October 8th, 2008 · Comments (0)
Just did an SVN update for the installation of WordPress that this blog is running on and woah. Crazyhorse has kinda been integrated into the builds. Left hand navigation and the whole she bang. This after lots of extensive user testing.
I guess this will take some getting used to but otherwise, looks like a pretty solid release.
Tags: 2.7, svn, update, wordpress
Posted in Others, Server · September 3rd, 2008 · Comments (0)
Been having problems with SingNet’s routing of traffic to my slice since the beginning of last week. Didn’t feel the impact till the weekend when I went home. Its either a misconfigured router or something bigger, both of which are no longer a problem as things are back to normal.
A side benefit of all these, I got to know of 2 other Singaporeans that are using Slicehost.
Posted in Server, connectivity · August 11th, 2008 · Comments (0)
Updated to the most current version of WordPress that is currently in development.
Tags: 2.7, development, site, svn, wordpress
Posted in Server · July 27th, 2008 · Comments (0)
Slicehost has a new Kernel for their slices. 2.6.24 to be exact. They mention to request support to upgrade.
15 minutes response time on average for the past 2 support tickets I’ve ever sent.
I’m loving my Slicehost account.
Tags: 2.6.24, fast, kernel, linux, response, Server, slicehost, support, upgrade, xen
Posted in Server · July 18th, 2008 · Comments (0)
Started this to consolidate all the plugins written for ASI for sharing with the community. All are GPL and am hoping to push it up to WordPress Extend.
For now, I’m happy to say that ASI’s almost done. Exciting times.
Just wishing now there is some FOSS app that will automatically trawl a SVN repo and generate project pages for general public consumption out there with download links, info, descriptions and what not.
Tags: asi, development, plugins, site, wordpress
Posted in ASI, Method, Server, devlog · July 15th, 2008 · Comments (0)
They have just credited the money I’ve paid them back to my Credit Card. So I guess this marks the full transition to Slicehost.
Tags: credit, hosting, payment, refund, site5
Posted in Others, Server · July 15th, 2008 · Comments (0)
Oh crap. Just when I’m settling in I see that there is actually a competitor to Slicehost. To be precise, Slicehost is kinda competiting with them considering the fact that they have existed a while longer than SH.
Their plans seem to have a better progression of pricing as well as features. Loving their payment terms too. I guess that’s what you get for being longer in the game. Dammmn.
Still, I think I’d stick with Slicehost and see how things goes.
Posted in Server · July 11th, 2008 · Comments (0)
Okay. That’s a weird warning, but apparently it has to do with VirtualHost configuration that I’ve never bothered to read up on or get right, because ultimately in the end, it is just a warning and Apache still gets the whole thing right.
Still, now that I’m running my own VPS, I might as well get it fixed. So here’s it.
This apparently affects Apache configurations on hosts that only have 1 IP address for a variety of domain names or subdomains. The correct fix would be to declare a single NameVirtualHost as a wildcard and have the VirtualHosts sections in the configuration define the address using the ServerAdmin directive.
Tags: apache, dns, namevirtualhost, Server, site, virtualhost
Posted in Server · July 10th, 2008 · Comments (0)