For desktop, I’ve always preferred rolling release distros such as Arch Linux or recently Kali Linux. However, currently I’m on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, which I rush-installed after an SSD failure last year. Ubuntu recently released 16.04 LTS which means at some point, I’ll need to perform an in-place upgrade or complete re-install to enjoy the newer […]
PHP Performance: Additional CPU cores vs faster CPU cores
May 6, 2017 by Hayden James Blog LinuxJust over a week ago I received a contact form email detailing slow performance issues with a LAMP (Linux, Apache MySQL, PHP) web server. During the audit phase, I found that the server’s load average was pretty idle. However, the website was indeed very slow. Among a slew of other issues and misconfigurations, one aspect of […]
Panopta (exclusive offer) Get Two Free Months
April 18, 2017 by Hayden James Blog Linux UpdatesOver the years Panopta has listened to customer feedback and continues to respond with additional development and improvements to their infrastructure, application and network performance monitoring tools. With Panopta you can easily keep an eye on the most fundamental metrics across your complex infrastructure so you can identify the root cause of problems. If you […]
80% of the web powered by PHP
February 17, 2017 by Hayden James Blog LinuxToday, PHP is used by more than 80% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know. Popular websites such as Facebook, Wikipedia, WordPress.com, Tumblr and this website are all powered by PHP. With such a large share of the web, it may or may not surprise you that more than 90% of PHP based websites […]
Accelerate Time to Value for Log Analytics with the Oracle Management Cloud
January 31, 2017 by Hayden James Blog Guest Post LinuxGuest post by Philip Brown, Director of Cloud Strategy @ Red Stack Tech. Oracle Management Cloud is the latest innovation from Oracle, a unique on-premise and in cloud suite of monitoring, management and analytics services, meeting the individual needs of each business. This unified suite enables you to improve IT stability, prevent application outages, increase DevOps […]