Let me start by saying, I won’t bore you with the list of what I call stupid optimizations. That’s why I call this 4a, I recommend skipping 4a and go directly to 4b When I first when on my quest to optimize my code, I was disappointed at what I found. Let me give you a short list of ‘tips’ [...]
Once your site begins to grow, it will most likely contain dozens of images, css and js files, and many other requests. Keep alives allows those requests to happen over the same tcp/ip connection. So what is keep alive exactly? As mentioned before, keep alive is an option in the apache config, this was added to the http protocol to [...]
This will be the first blogpost in a compilation of posts about optimizing your webserver. Everyone likes their website to go fast right?, So did I. Something that can give you an easy performance boost is gzip compression. This compresses the data that is being send to the user with mod_deflate(apache). Because of the way xml and html is structured, [...]
Nov 122009
If you’re trying to post code on your wordpress blog, then you’re in for a surprise! Or at least me. The problem was more that I did not read the manual and looked enough at the examples. This blog is pretty much all about code, so for me, who was using WordPress for the first time, wanted one thing, post [...]
Oct 172009
This is the first post on this brand new blog. Let me take a moment to explain the kind of blog posts you can expect and the main reason I started blogging. Ever had it happen to you?, searching for hours to find a solution to a problem, finally finding it and only to forget it the next time in [...]