A couple of days ago I installed OpenSuSE 12.1 on my laptop after running OpenSuSE 11.4 for quite a while. Upgradeing was no big deal. OpenSuSE has a nice tutorial on that. The new version finally supports the integrated mobile modem out of the box which is very nice. The only annoyance I got is [...]
So you are using memcached to speed up your system. Than suddenly at some point you notice memcache is not helping anymore but is does not cache the part that has the worst impact on your system. That´s what just has happened to me. Why is Memcache not cacheing I asked myself. Well, the default [...]
I created a library to access the API of the Textbroker marketplace more easily. The library is Open Source with a BSD licence. Feel free to grab a copy and play with it. Feedback is appreciated. Based on that work I developed the Textbroker WordPress plug-in which makes it very easy and comfortable to place [...]
Today I will start a new series for linux/*nix newbies called Useful shell commands. Every now and then I will write about one of the powerful commands you’ll find on your shell. I will start the series with a command called last. # last Calling last on your commandline gives you a list of logins. [...]
Nowadays OpenSUSE comes with almost all packages I need to run a fast and reliable webserver. As I have written before I use nginx and php-fpm for our podcast service. You can get up-to-date packages of nginx through OpenSuSE’s build service. I have not yet found a RPM package of php-fpm though. Therefore I compile [...]
I had to set up a server. The hoster offers openSUSE 11.0 at the moment but no openSUSE 11.1 yet. As I like to go with the latest and greatest I decided to upgrade the system to openSUSE 11.1 after using the hoster’s installation image for openSUSE 11.0. I searched on the web how a [...]
The newest version of OpenSuSE got released today. OpenSuSE 11.1 brings more than 230 new features the press release says. As I keep my systems up to date thanks to smart and all the repositories only a number of these new feature are missing on my OpenSuSE 11.0 installations. The most important reason I quickly [...]
The bad thing with most new computers is that they come with Windows ™ preinstalled. The good thing is those Windows ™ installations don’t bring much (useful) software along. Users have to actively use which software they want to use. Google+
A while back I wrote an article Switching from Apache HTTP Server to Lighttpd – Installing Lighttpd. Back then I migrated static stuff to lighttpd but left the dynamic stuff (PHP) with Apache. I was never really satisfied with the speed of our system under load. I tried and tried. I optimized a lot of [...]
For our main web project we struggle to serve the pages as fast as we want and as people aspect. Server load is too high most of the time. We did many different kinds of optimization. Starting with rewriting part of the code, squeezing the database, compiling the software we need instead of installing precompiled [...]