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Running with MySQL 5.5

Posted on February 3, 2011 by nigel

I’ve got the latest version of MySQL installed and running. I’ve spent quite a few hours setting up and configuring my servers. I’ve custom written my firewall scripts and finely tuned them (to the best of my ability) for my … Continue reading →

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Building infrastructure for isRaiding

Posted on January 26, 2011 by nigel

I’ve started work building isRaiding finally. I’ve implemented a small farm of VPS’s (Virtual Private Servers) to prove the technology I’m working with and to make sure that things will scale outward correctly. I’m still testing database performance for MySQL … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Outages

Posted on January 20, 2011 by nigel

Hi Everyone, there is going to be some downtime coming up for my sites. I’m upgrading my hosting platform getting ready for isRaiding. I need to rebuild my database servers and my web servers so my blog might be a … Continue reading →

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New Year, New Plans!

Posted on January 11, 2011 by nigel

2011 is upon us already and this year is shaping up to be an awesome year! I hope everyone has made their New Years resolutions and are actively working towards them. I’ve made 3 major ones and so far 2 … Continue reading →

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Protecting 777 directories with .htaccess

Posted on December 15, 2010 by nigel

Just like my file permissions there is one .htaccess file I cant live without. It’s super simple and will save you from major headaches! <FilesMatch “\.php$”> Order Allow,Deny Deny from all </FilesMatch> That’s it! It prevents php files from being … Continue reading →

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Linux Commands – File and Folder Permissions

Posted on December 8, 2010 by nigel

I regularly find myself dealing with websites that have been hacked and they almost always have weak permissions. Here are the 2 commands I cant live without: find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; find . -type f … Continue reading →

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Deciding on a framework…

Posted on December 5, 2010 by nigel

I’ve been ummm’ing and ahhh’ing about what framework to use for my IsRaiding site. I’ve decided to go with DooPHP. I’m having some trouble with the view rendering, ->render doesnt seem to want to work for me however ->renderc works … Continue reading →

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Load testing with Siege – Part II

Posted on December 1, 2010 by nigel

edit: One thing to note is both of these tests are testing wordpress more than anything. I’ve since run tests just using <?php echo phpinfo();  ?> which did 24 million page views with 0 failures. I set siege up last … Continue reading →

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Load testing with Siege

Posted on November 30, 2010 by nigel

I’ve been running load tests against my hardware to see how it copes. Here we go…. Transactions: 87830 hits Availability: 99.72 % Elapsed time: 899.33 secs Data transferred: 157.22 MB Response time: 2.05 secs Transaction rate: 97.66 trans/sec Throughput: 0.17 … Continue reading →

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Google Webmaster Tools – Site Performance

Posted on November 30, 2010 by nigel

I’m itching to see what Google has to say about this blogs performance. I love playing around with the toys that Google offer us as web developers. I have friends who shun Google for various reasons – when you look … Continue reading →

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