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The effect of network latency on the performance of Apache pre-fork web server model
Web server performance is a complex topic, involving many variables. When thinking of the variables that affect how a web server performs normally the following come to mind: * Database * CPU * Memory * Disk But one thing that is not mentioned most
Tuning MySQL Server Settings
The default configuration file for MySQL is intended not to use many resources, because its a general purpose sort of a configuration file. The default configuration does enough to have MySQL running happily with limited resources and catering to simple
A definitive guide to setting up your own Mail Server - Part 1
Setting up a mail server, in itself, is not that difficult a task, but there are integrations that can really mess up with your time and mind. Integrations such as SMTP authentication, setting up virtual users and virtual mailboxes, setting
Bluehost web hosting – a big no no for websites with decent traffic!
I had recently started my blog and chosen Bluehost as my hosting provider. The reason for choosing Bluehost was that I had hosted many static and low traffic websites on their servers previously and also because Bluehost was featured on
Databases: Normalization or Denormalization. Which is the better technique?
This has really been a long debate as to which approach is more performance orientated, normalized databases or denormalized databases. So this article is a step on my part to figure out the right strategy, because neither one of these
jQuery Spotlight Plugin: jSpotlight
About: This plugin allows you to bring spotlight on any HTML element. This plugin may be used in situations where you need to call attention to or highlight where a data value or content has changed within the interface. A
Javascript method priority queue
Problem Statement: There are times when people are faced with the problem of calling methods in a particular order based on some kind of priority. There are times when you wish to be able to add methods to some kind
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