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May 21, 2012
You’ve compressed and minified your JavaScript and CSS, optimized your database, and tweaked your caching config, and yet you still can’t seem to get that time-to-first-byte to drop below one second. Tweaking dynamic applications like Magento can be frustrating. Sometimes … Continue reading ?
May 14, 2012
Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 14, 2012 -Nexcess, a leading provider of Magento eCommerce solutions and Magento hosting partner, is pleased to announce sponsorship of the upcoming Meet Magento #6.12 conference in Leipzig, Germany. The conference will feature keynotes from industry … Continue reading ?
May 14, 2012
As I mentioned in my last blog entry about Customer Service, my obsession for Batman would be a blog for another time. That time is here! As a young boy, I knew there was something special about the caped crusader. … Continue reading ?
May 07, 2012
Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 7, 2012 – Nexcess, a leading provider of premium eCommerce hosting services, has announced that the company’s sustained PCI-compliant web hosting environment will become PCI certified in the coming weeks. This certification relates to directly to … Continue reading ?
May 04, 2012
Detroit’s official motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus “We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes.” It’s my pleasure to announce the first meeting of the Detroit Linux User Group A.K.A. D-LUG! With the rapid growth of the … Continue reading ?
May 03, 2012
The benefits of using social media for building brand awareness, driving traffic, and creating leads are well accepted. However, maintaining and monitoring a coherent content strategy across multiple channels can involve a lot of work. Thankfully, for those with a … Continue reading ?
Apr 27, 2012
Recently, I was notified of an “out of disk space” error message which showed up in one of our applications while trying to send an email. I knew right away the source of the problem and while the short term … Continue reading ?
Apr 27, 2012
Recently, I was notified of an “out of disk space” error message which showed up in one of our applications while trying to send an email. I knew right away the source of the problem and while the short term … Continue reading ?
Apr 27, 2012
Over the last several months, we have dedicated considerable time and effort in revamping our Support Knowledgebase (KB). This undertaking includes updating existing content, adding new content, and organizing information into a more logical and intuitive structure. Also, for those … Continue reading ?
Apr 27, 2012
Over the last several months, we have dedicated considerable time and effort in revamping our Support Knowledgebase (KB). This undertaking includes updating existing content, adding new content, and organizing information into a more logical and intuitive structure. Also, for those … Continue reading ?
Apr 20, 2012
A survey of e-commerce sites in the Alexa top million websites has found that, as of the first quarter of 2012, Magento is by far the most popular e-commerce solution. Alexa Internet Inc. tracks the web use of millions of … Continue reading ?
Apr 20, 2012
A survey of e-commerce sites in the Alexa top million websites has found that, as of the first quarter of 2012, Magento is by far the most popular e-commerce solution. Alexa Internet Inc. tracks the web use of millions of … Continue reading ?
Apr 16, 2012
While doing some profiling and benchmarking of Magento to test PHP-FPM I found that Magento was spending roughly a quarter of the run time for some page loads on comparing attributes. This struck me as odd, and so I looked … Continue reading ?
Apr 16, 2012
While doing some profiling and benchmarking of Magento to test PHP-FPM I found that Magento was spending roughly a quarter of the run time for some page loads on comparing attributes. This struck me as odd, and so I looked … Continue reading ?
Mar 30, 2012
The question of whether you can store credit card information within Magento comes up a lot here at Nexcess. The answer to this question is unfortunately not very clear when looking for an answer elsewhere including on the Magento website. … Continue reading ?
Mar 30, 2012
The question of whether you can store credit card information within Magento comes up a lot here at Nexcess. The answer to this question is unfortunately not very clear when looking for an answer elsewhere including on the Magento website. … Continue reading ?
Mar 26, 2012
The control panel we use, Interworx, comes with djbdns as its DNS server. djbdns is actually a suite made up of several separate servers, the two main ones being tinydns for iterative (non-recursive) lookups and dnscache for recursive lookups. Other … Continue reading ?
Mar 26, 2012
The control panel we use, Interworx, comes with djbdns as its DNS server. djbdns is actually a suite made up of several separate servers, the two main ones being tinydns for iterative (non-recursive) lookups and dnscache for recursive lookups. Other … Continue reading ?
Mar 16, 2012
There a lot of ways to use PHP with Apache, with the most popular probably being mod_php due to its ease of use. However there are many problems with mod_php both security and performance-wise and other solutions have been created … Continue reading ?
Mar 16, 2012
There a lot of ways to use PHP with Apache, with the most popular probably being mod_php due to its ease of use. However there are many problems with mod_php both security and performance-wise and other solutions have been created … Continue reading ?
Mar 13, 2012
Ann Arbor, MI, March 13, 2012 - Nexcess, a Michigan-based provider of Enterprise-grade managed hosting services has announced the successful completion of their SSAE 16 Type 2 examination, within the scope of Data Center and Web Hosting Services. Conducted by BrightLine CPAs … Continue reading ?
Mar 13, 2012
Ann Arbor, MI, March 13, 2012 - Nexcess, a Michigan-based provider of Enterprise-grade managed hosting services has announced the successful completion of their SSAE 16 Type 2 examination, within the scope of Data Center and Web Hosting Services. Conducted by BrightLine CPAs … Continue reading ?
Mar 05, 2012
Being one of the most widely-deployed blogging engines around, it’s no surprise that WordPress holds the interests of a wide audience. Unfortunately, not everyone is out to become the next rockstar blogger or tech pundit; the sad truth is that … Continue reading ?
Mar 05, 2012
Being one of the most widely-deployed blogging engines around, it’s no surprise that WordPress holds the interests of a wide audience. Unfortunately, not everyone is out to become the next rockstar blogger or tech pundit; the sad truth is that … Continue reading ?
Feb 24, 2012
I recently worked with one of our Magento Enterprise Cluster clients who wanted to improve the performance of their site. This client was using our Content Delivery Network to offload the serving of static assets, and was following all of … Continue reading ?
Feb 24, 2012
I recently worked with one of our Magento Enterprise Cluster clients who wanted to improve the performance of their site. This client was using our Content Delivery Network to offload the serving of static assets, and was following all of … Continue reading ?
Feb 22, 2012
In the wake of possibly the largest online protests in Internet history over SOPA and PIPA, copyright on the Internet remains no small topic on the public’s collective Internet-linked mind. Amidst this controversy, it became quite clear that the average … Continue reading ?
Feb 17, 2012
There was a time when you could Google my name and see an entry titled “Greg Swaney is what customer service should be”. That was the coolest thing I’d ever seen the first time I came across it. It told … Continue reading ?
Feb 15, 2012
Ann Arbor, Michigan, Feburary 15, 2012 – Nexcess, a leading provider of superior web hosting services and a Gold Magento hosting partner, has announced participation in the second annual Magento Imagine eCommerce Conference in Las Vegas, NV. Acquired by eBay … Continue reading ?
Feb 10, 2012
When I was first approached to write a blog post I said to myself, this can’t be yet another technical article. Yes, the technical posts we write are informative; after all we are a hosting company! A hosting company that … Continue reading ?
Feb 03, 2012
I started using Ubuntu in 2009. By the following year I had dropped the dual boot with Windows XP and was completely Ubuntu. When I hit a glitch during an update in 2011, I figured I would re-install with the … Continue reading ?
Jan 30, 2012
Last summer, we were proud to roll out our Client Portal – a robust, integrated system that allows Nexcess clients to quickly and easily manage their hosting account and utilize the Support system, from a single login. It’s been over 6 months … Continue reading ?
Jan 30, 2012
Ann Arbor, Michigan, January 30, 2012 – Nexcess, a Michigan-based managed hosting company with specialized solutions in Magento and WordPress hosting, has announced a new enterprise line of managed server clusters that are uniquely optimized for WordPress-based web sites. This … Continue reading ?
Jan 23, 2012
If you are reading this blog post or host a site with us, you have more than likely heard about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP act (PIPA). There is so much information circulating regarding these … Continue reading ?
Jan 16, 2012
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A., January 16, 2011 – Nexcess, a United States-based managed web hosting company with specialized services in WordPress web hosting, has announced a new line of UK WordPress hosting solutions to be made available effective immediately. This … Continue reading ?
Jan 13, 2012
When a website reaches the point where a single web server can no longer handle the amount of traffic to the content or services it provides you must find a way to reliably distribute its load over two or more … Continue reading ?
Jan 12, 2012
In my last blog posting I wrote about some basic features of grep. If you already use grep a lot, it was probably a pretty boring post. One problem I used to have is when running grep, I’d get a … Continue reading ?
Dec 30, 2011
Apache’s Solr search platform is a common solution for more flexible and better performing searches on sites that have outgrown their database’s built-in search facilities. Here at Nexcess, the most common use is by clients with Magento Enterprise Edition (the … Continue reading ?
Dec 19, 2011
Apache’s mod_rewrite and mod_alias can be very useful, but they can also be a huge pain to debug when a problem arises. Luckily, there are a few things that can help, and since you’re probably not the first person attempting … Continue reading ?
Dec 05, 2011
In my last blog posting I wrote about features of the less pager. Its one of those very common Linux utilities that everyone uses but no one reads the man page to learn about features. Just like less, everyone uses … Continue reading ?
Nov 21, 2011
Web hosting is a competitive industry. Hosting companies can often find success by differentiating themselves through specialization. To that end, companies specializing in hosting certain popular web applications such as WordPress or Magento have been able to compete against the … Continue reading ?
Nov 15, 2011
WordPress is typically great about taking care of itself and dealing with upgrades elegantly. However, sometimes it gets stuck in a rut. One common issue we’ve seen is the upgrade loop, which presents you with a page in wp-admin explaining … Continue reading ?
Nov 11, 2011
Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 10, 2011 – Nexcess, a web hosting provider with data center facilities in Dearborn and Southfield, Michigan, has announced the release of a new web hosting platform that is designed specifically for hosting WordPress web sites. … Continue reading ?
Nov 04, 2011
Scenario 1: You you have two servers located a large geographical distance apart, say one in The US, the other in the UK. You are copying a large file between these two locations via scp but you are only averaging … Continue reading ?
Oct 30, 2011
less is what is known as a pager in the world of Linux. Pagers are used to view files or output piped in. As their name implies, they’re used when there are multiple pages of text that can’t fit on … Continue reading ?
Oct 17, 2011
CGI (Common Gateway Interface) is one of the oldest and most widely supported methods of adding dynamic content to a website. However, debugging CGI scripts can be quite a pain, since often the error messages are vague and unhelpful (such … Continue reading ?
Oct 17, 2011
Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 17, 2011 – Nexcess, a managed web hosting company with data centers located in Dearborn and Southfield, Michigan, has announced their role as an Enterprise Sponsor of WordCamp Detroit 2011. WordCamp is an informal local conference … Continue reading ?
Oct 04, 2011
I often find myself needing a simple tool to diagnose TCP and UDP connection issues in real time. While tcpdump is an excellent tool for debugging issues at the packet level, a higher level tool is often better to diagnose … Continue reading ?
Oct 03, 2011
DNS is perhaps one of the biggest sources of frustration for our clients (trumped perhaps only be e-mail). These issues mostly stem from the way DNS caching works. Since every domain on the internet requires DNS to function, there are … Continue reading ?
Sep 26, 2011
I have the pleasure of dealing with mail problems frequently, specifically problems getting messages delivered from our servers to other servers. When diagnosing a problem, I usually ended up telnetting directly to the server to send it some commands to … Continue reading ?
Sep 12, 2011
Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 12, 2011 – Nexcess, an eCommerce hosting company and Magento Gold Hosting Partner, has announced that they will be exhibiting at the 2011 X.commerce Innovate Developer Conference on October 12-13 in at Moscone West in San … Continue reading ?
Sep 11, 2011
While there are numerous version control systems available these days, Git (created by Linus Torvalds) has become very popular recently. In this post, I’m going to cover the basic usage of Git, along with other helpful tools. Git is cross-platform, … Continue reading ?
Sep 06, 2011
Ann Arbor, Michigan, September 6, 2011 – Nexcess, an eCommerce hosting company with facilities in Dearborn, Michigan, has announced their inclusion in the 2011 Inc. 5000 list for a second straight year. The Michigan web hosting company placed #1297 overall, … Continue reading ?
Sep 02, 2011
Recently, a certificate authority (CA) named Diginotar mistakenly issued valid wildcard SSL certificates for some major websites such as Google, Mozilla, Yahoo, WordPress and the Tor Project. Security experts and application vendors considered this a serious threat to the essential … Continue reading ?
Aug 28, 2011
RVM is a great piece of software. Without it, it’d be a nightmare to maintain multiple versions of Ruby and multiple gemsets. I know that I use it every day, and if you’re developing with Ruby, you’ll probably want to … Continue reading ?
Aug 22, 2011
CentOS 6 comes with a splash screen that displays a progress bar as it boots. This looks nice and might be cool on a desktop for some eye candy but I’d rather watch what is happening. You can hit any … Continue reading ?
Aug 14, 2011
It seems that every site you visit has a link to share this article, page or product with your Facebook friends. This tutorial will make it easy for your customers to share your products with their Facebook friends. For this … Continue reading ?
Aug 08, 2011
Software RAID can be a great alternative when greater disk redundancy and/or performance is needed but the expense of a hardware RAID card can’t be justified. On Linux, software RAID almost universally means mdadm, so that is what I’m going … Continue reading ?
Aug 08, 2011
On the heels of our support system upgrade, we are finally fully integrating our client portals of all of our various services into one complete system. This will allow us to provide a single point of contact for all of … Continue reading ?
Aug 05, 2011
Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 1, 2011 – Nexcess, operator of a PCI -compliant Michigan data center, has announced the addition of Global Crossing (GBLX) to the facility’s network. Effective immediately, Nexcess’ web hosting clients that receive service from the company’s … Continue reading ?
Aug 01, 2011
Many Magento store owners continue to operate old versions of the rapidly maturing e-commerce application. With the 1.6 release looming on the horizon, now seems like a good time to consider upgrading. If you’re running a version prior to the … Continue reading ?
Jul 26, 2011
When you’re working on your store and trying to get something important done, momentum matters a lot, and anything that interrupts your workflow can really get you out of the zone. I find that this happens to me a lot … Continue reading ?
Jul 15, 2011
Partnering with RedStage, Celebros, and Magento, The Nexcess team had the opportunity to organize and be part of our first event, in a series of informal events, focused on Magento and e-commerce at large. This event was intentionally held in … Continue reading ?
Jul 15, 2011
Kernels RPMs are install only packages but CentOS 4 has no limit on the number of install only packages it will keep around, so you can easily end up with years worth of kernels installed on your server. This doesn’t … Continue reading ?
Jul 10, 2011
Virtual machines are undeniably useful in web hosting, not just as an offered service but also just for testing and debugging issues. However, while VMWare and Xen offer good performance they require a server dedicated to running just the VMWare … Continue reading ?
Jul 01, 2011
Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 1, 2011 – Nexcess, an eCommerce hosting provider with wholly-owned facilities located in Dearborn, Michigan, has announced that they will be giving a presentation on July 7, 2011 at an event in New York City, entitled … Continue reading ?
Jun 29, 2011
What is response time? Response time, or Responsiveness, is simply how quickly an interactive system responds to user input. In terms of the web, definitions vary. Some researchers define response time from the moment the user submits the request for … Continue reading ?
Jun 20, 2011
At Nexcess, we commonly run across problematic extension. Whether the issue is version incompatibilities, database problems, permissions problems, or anything else, the ability to quickly disable an extension or two for troubleshooting is extremely useful. First, a bit about Magento’s … Continue reading ?
Jun 10, 2011
Sooner or later, you will probably want to install a Magento theme other than the default. The good news is, Magento theme installation is quick and easy. This will be accomplished in just 3 simple steps. Step 1: Download a … Continue reading ?
Jun 07, 2011
Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 30, 2011 – Nexcess, an eCommerce web hosting provider with wholly-owned data center facilities in Dearborn, Michigan, announced today that they are now certified under the U.S.-E.U. Safe Harbor Framework. This achievement is intended to promote … Continue reading ?
Jun 04, 2011
The native replication built into MySQL is a powerful tool to keep an identical copy or copies of a database across multiple servers. MySQL replication is useful if you want have an exact copy of a live database for backup … Continue reading ?
May 27, 2011
We use CentOS almost exclusively here at Nexcess.net and while it’s very stable, a downside is that it often ships with older versions of software. Unfortunately, Ruby is one of those older software packages that we find our clients will … Continue reading ?
May 23, 2011
Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 23, 2011 – Nexcess, an eCommerce web hosting company and official Magento hosting provider, has announced the expansion of their Magento web hosting product line at the company’s United Kingdom facilities. This addition, which applies only … Continue reading ?
May 21, 2011
“What is the difference between the “Flush Magento Cache” and “Flush Cache Storage” buttons?” We get this question often enough that it’s worth making a short blog post about it. In order to understand the difference between these two options, … Continue reading ?
May 14, 2011
SSL is one of the most widely-used technologies for securing communications over the internet. It does have a few design flaws, but it’s still widely used to secure e-mail (IMAP-SSL and POP3-SSL), HTTP traffic (via HTTPS), and other communications. By … Continue reading ?
May 09, 2011
Qmail is the mail client that comes with the control panel we use, Interworx. Qmail has its strengths and weaknesses, one drawback is there’s no easy built in way to view the messages in the mail queue. One of the … Continue reading ?
May 02, 2011
IPMI is the Intelligent Platform Management Interface which is an open standard that is integrated into most systems by hardware manufacturers. IPMI can provide real time hardware information including system temperatures, voltages, fan speeds and hardware status, along with identification … Continue reading ?
Apr 27, 2011
Ann Arbor, Michigan U.S.A., April 27, 2011- Nexcess, a Magento Enterprise Hosting Partner, has announced expansion into the UK Magento hosting market. This effort has been designed to better serve the company’s current and future eCommerce hosting clients by providing … Continue reading ?
Apr 23, 2011
Apache’s rewrite engine is very powerful and often misunderstood. It can be fairly cryptic to work with and given that a mistake can take down your site it can be costly to debug. While I’ve tested the following rules thoroughly … Continue reading ?
Apr 15, 2011
In previous weeks, we’ve covered some debugging tools for both MySQL and PHP that can be very helpful in troubleshooting problems with your LAMP-based web applications. However, there is a little known feature in the Varien library installed with Magento … Continue reading ?
Apr 09, 2011
Here at Nexcess, we deal with lots of passwords. Passwords for SSH, passwords for e-mail, passwords for intranet sites, passwords for VPNs. We have passwords that fall within the client realm things like webmail, control panels, e-mail, FTP…the list goes … Continue reading ?
Apr 02, 2011
We’ve seen a few customers failing PCI scans due to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities on the catalogsearch page. Initially it seemed like it was a bug in Magento where it wasn’t sanitizing its input but when we tried to … Continue reading ?
Mar 28, 2011
Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 728, 2011– Nexcess, an Enterprise eCommerce hosting provider whose wholly-owned facilities reside in Dearborn, Michigan, has announced an SSAE-16 type I and II standards audit of their data center by BrightLine CPAs & Associates, Inc, formerly … Continue reading ?
Mar 25, 2011
APC (Alternative PHP Cache) is an opcode cache for PHP that works very well to speed up page loads when used on servers running Magento. There are many opcode caches available (APC, accelerator, xcache, etc) which can be used with … Continue reading ?
Mar 22, 2011
Magento has emerged as one of the Internet’s leading eCommerce solutions, and perhaps the greatest reason for this is the massive community that is constantly documenting new tricks and writing extensions. Want to get started with your own web-based storefront? … Continue reading ?
Mar 18, 2011
We often have clients that set-up a staging environment in addition to their production e-commerce environment. We also do a lot of website moves for clients who want to see their site on our servers before the final cut-over takes … Continue reading ?
Mar 16, 2011
Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 14, 2011 – Nexcess, an enterprise eCommerce hosting provider, has announced that they will be exhibiting at Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition 2011 (IRCE2011). The event is scheduled to take place from June 14-17 at the … Continue reading ?
Mar 11, 2011
Magento version 1.5.0.1 was released on February 9th, 2011. It adds a number of performance improvements in the areas of dataflow and checkout, and comes with the hot new Magento Mobile module installed. While we have not run into the … Continue reading ?
Mar 06, 2011
Hello again! Last time we looked at optimizing performance of web apps, we were checking out how to diagnose PHP performance bottlenecks using XDebug to generate valgrind-style logs of what PHP was doing. While that can be immensely useful in … Continue reading ?
Feb 28, 2011
Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 28, 2011 – Nexcess, an Enterprise Magento Hosting Partner with facilities in Dearborn, MI, has announced a new line of managed cluster solutions designed to work specifically for web sites that use the Magento shopping cart … Continue reading ?
Feb 25, 2011
Python is a great language but CentOS 5 comes with Python 2.4 which is pretty old nowadays. CentOS’s will remain on that version of Python until it reaches EOL since upgrading to a newer versions can introduce changes which are … Continue reading ?
Feb 20, 2011
New offering will bring dramatically improved web performance to Nexcess customer sites ANN ARBOR, MI – FEBRUARY 21, 2011 – Nexcess, a leading provider of managed web hosting and e-commerce hosting services, today announced the availability of high-quality content delivery … Continue reading ?
Jan 29, 2011
Tracking down a performance issue to the actual PHP app can be hard enough by itself, but what do you do once you’re sure that the app itself is the bottleneck? The excellent Xdebug ( http://www.xdebug.org/ )extension has many useful … Continue reading ?
Jan 21, 2011
I frequently need to look at apache log files to diagnose problems. Over time I’ve developed a series of one liners I can copy and paste to quickly analyze a log file to look for a problems, abuse, popular pages, … Continue reading ?
Jan 19, 2011
Ann Arbor, Michigan, January 17, 2011 – Nexcess, a specialized eCommerce web hosting provider and Enterprise Magento hosting partner, has announced that they will be taking part in the Magento Imagine Conference from February 7-11 in Los Angeles, CA as … Continue reading ?
Jan 18, 2011
The Dell DRAC (Dell Remote Access Card) is a powerful piece of hardware for remote server management. Utilizing a DRAC card, you can have total server control from remote locations including control to power on or off the server as … Continue reading ?
Jan 01, 2011
The latest stable version of magento, version 1.4.2.0, was released on December 8th. Upgrading Magento Community Edition always poses some problem or another, mostly due to user-customized themes and third-party extensions. However, upgrading from a vanilla 1.4.1.x install does generate … Continue reading ?
Dec 28, 2010
A guide and a few examples on the usage of the Dell PERC / LSI MegaRaid MegaCLI utility. Continue reading ?
Dec 19, 2010
mock is tool that builds your RPMs in a chrooted environment which helps make good RPMs. The way most people start out building RPMs is to run rpmbuild -ba on their spec file and hope it builds. While this works … Continue reading ?
Dec 13, 2010
In the Magento 1.4 release, the memcached backend configuration has changed. There are now more options listed than in previous Magento versions. Some confusion has resulted in how to configure memcached in this new version as the previous configuration for … Continue reading ?
Dec 06, 2010
By default most software packages are installed with the most lenient file/directory permissions and ownership. This is normally done for the sake of the software developer given that their software must be installed on a range of diverse systems with … Continue reading ?
Dec 01, 2010
Ann Arbor, Michigan, December 1, 2010 — Nexcess, a leading provider of shared, dedicated, and eCommerce web hosting services, announced it has adopted Ksplice’s Uptrack “rebootless” Linux technology, bringing its customers a new class of best-of-breed server offerings. Starting immediately, Ksplice … Continue reading ?
Nov 26, 2010
There are times when the web-based administration of Magento hits a snag and no longer works as quickly as we’d like it to. Perhaps product exports or backups time out, or refreshing the URL rewrite table seems to run for … Continue reading ?
Nov 21, 2010
Accurately measuring webpage performance across different browsers has always been a challenge. While there are benchmarks that are often quoted (such as the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark and the ACID3 compliance test), measuring total page load time has always been problematic. … Continue reading ?
Nov 14, 2010
I recently ran in to a problem where I had a 1.1 gig Apache transfer log and I needed to produce a list of IPs that had accessed two URLs more than 5 times but exclude a /24 CIDR block … Continue reading ?
Nov 08, 2010
When performance tuning any modern Linux system, selecting a proper I/O scheduler is an important but often under looked optimization. Linux comes configured with the cfq (Completely Fair Queuing) scheduler which has been optimized for best performance over a wide … Continue reading ?
Nov 03, 2010
Saturday, October 30th 2010 marked our 10 year anniversary online and as a web hosting company. Nexcess.net started in October of 2000 in the back room of my house in Southfield, MI with two web-servers, two DNS servers and some … Continue reading ?
Oct 22, 2010
During the development of your Magento eCommerce store, performance usually takes a back seat to functionality and design. However, after you’ve installed all of your extensions and have checked the spelling on your last cms page, you’ll want to focus … Continue reading ?
Oct 17, 2010
Last week, we covered speeding up WordPress with Memcache, which was simple enough, but most shared hosting plans don’t allow you to run memcached. Even if you are allowed to run the memcache daemon on your server and you have … Continue reading ?
Oct 11, 2010
Memcache is a High-performance, distributed object caching system. WordPress is a great piece of blogging / CMS software. If you’re running a WordPress site and you’re having growing pains, you can combine the two to handle increased traffic and, more … Continue reading ?