With MySQL, common configuration mistakes can cause serious performance problems. In fact, if you mis-configure just one of the many config parameters, it can cripple performance! (see examples) Of course, the performance of MySQL is often tied greatly to the efficiency of your MySQL queries. It’s important to ensure that your performance issues are not […]
How to direct-install Debian SID rolling release using mini.iso (w/ screenshots)
May 20, 2017 by Hayden James Blog LinuxFor 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 […]