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More fun with the Webfusion configuration

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:5 December 2011
  • Post category:Shared Hosting
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This is a follow-up to my article on building a Webfusion test VM.  My aim is to create a test environment which reflects my Webfusion environment at a file system…

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Creating a test VM to mirror the Webfusion Shared Service

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:29 November 2011
  • Post category:Blog S/W/Shared Hosting
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In previous articles I have discussed how difficult it is for users of a shared web hosting service such as Webfusion's to develop and to debug applications on a service…

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Oh, the embarrassment!

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:25 November 2011
  • Post category:Blog S/W/Shared Hosting
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I’ve just discovered a bug in my blog: any comment posts get thrown into the bit-bucket and are never passed to me for acceptance / publishing if the user making…

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More on using Rewrite rules in .htaccess files

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:21 November 2011
  • Post category:Performance/Shared Hosting
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This article is a further discussion how to use rewrite rules on a shared hosting service (SHS) such as the one supplied by Webfusion and that I use.  It develops…

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HTTP Caching Revisited

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:29 June 2011
  • Post category:Blog S/W/Performance
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I find the issues around of Web performance very interesting.  I’ve researched pretty comprehensively and written a few articles in this area. I also routinely use various web tools to…

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A good web application spoilt by poor Internet performance

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:11 June 2011
  • Post category:Performance
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My wife and I have a cottage on the Greek island of Alonissos – at the very top of the village in the photo to the right.  We like the…

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The Anatomy and Timing of a Web Request – Part II

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:4 April 2011
  • Post category:Performance/Shared Hosting
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In Part I of this analysis, I looked at the overall timeline of viewing a webpage, and my main recommendations were: The correct webserver configuration is essential to ensure that…

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The Anatomy and Timing of a Web Request – Part I

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:2 April 2011
  • Post category:Performance/Shared Hosting
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My academic background was mathematics, specialising in operations research and statistics.  I put this to good use when I first started my career in an IT consultancy, in working one…

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phpBB Performance – Reducing the script load overhead

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:11 March 2011
  • Post category:Performance/Shared Hosting
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This is the third in a series of phpBB performance articles and in this one I want to investigate how feasible it would be to use code globbing to reduce…

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phpBB Performance – Reducing the data cache overhead

  • Post author:TerryE
  • Post published:9 March 2011
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As I described in a previous article, you can use Linux utility strace to instrument a web request simulation and suPHP model. sudo -u www-data strace -tt -o /tmp/strace.log php…

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