phpBB Performance – A 3x challenge
The trigger for this article was a conversation with Mark Fisher, someone that I mentored through his early career, and who has remained a close friend over the years, though…
More on optimising PHP applications in a Webfusion shared service
This article is a follow-up to Performance in a Webfusion shared service and guidelines for optimising PHP applications. I decided to have a look at general postings on PHP performance…
Running remote commands on a Webfusion shared service
The general advice here is don’t – especially if you are not familiar with the bash command shell and Linux environments in general. However, there are still certain cases when…
Access and Permissions on a Webfusion shared service
The ownership and permission system on the shared Webfusion LAMP services are somewhat odd and merit being documented. Here is a listing of an appropriate subset of the access and…
Another Apache configuration funny on a Webfusion shared service
Last week I had some fun when I moved my blog rewrite from my home development system to the Webfusion service. This was a quick copy of a PHP script…
FTP access to Webfusion shared accounts
This is a little journey of fun that I wanted to record. If you happen to own a Webfusion shared account and you navigate to the Webfusion Support Site, selecting…
Performance in a Webfusion shared service and guidelines for optimising PHP applications
I manage a few websites on a hobby / pro-bono basic, with this personal site being the smallest and the OpenOffice.org user forums being the largest (nicknamed usOOo after initials…
Using .htaccess files on a Webfusion shared service
This is a subsidiary article to Using PHP applications on a Webfusion hosted service (Linux), and in this want to discuss how to use .htaccess files on a Webfusion Linux…
Using PHP applications on a Webfusion hosted service (Linux)
I discussed the common types of ISP hosting services in a previous article, Use cases for phpBB, and I use one of these hosting services myself — a shared web…