EwanToo

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by EwanToo 15y ago
Just tried: This rush generated 7,363 successful hits in 1.0 min and we transferred 56.39 MB of data in and out of your app. The average hit rate of 117/second translates to about 10,159,286 hits/day. So you're right in that Varnish is the
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by EwanToo 15y ago
You're absolutely right (except about me being good, I don't know about that), and if someone asked me about hosting Wordpress for a serious business, I'd probably just tell them to use WPEngine or similar. But as a learning experience for
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by EwanToo 15y ago
Thanks - I mostly wrote it because I'd spent so long playing around with settings I realised I had no idea which ones made any difference anymore, so started again.
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by EwanToo 15y ago
Pretty much, yeah - though if you don't know what settings to put on nginx and varnish, you'll end up wasting most of the performance. I'm sure my configurations aren't perfect, but they're a lot better than the defaults they ship with, and
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by EwanToo 15y ago
I didn't play around with MySQL in those settings at all, mostly because the last thing you actually want is a query hitting the database. You're right though, if you start adding a few less well coded plugins, then you can start hitting th
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10 Million hits a day with Wordpress using a $15 server(ewanleith.com)
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Static-CMS: Dynamically create static websites to host on Amazon S3(code.google.com)
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Neutrinos clocked at light-speed in new Icarus test(bbc.co.uk)
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by EwanToo 15y ago
It's largely driven by the people who buy the software having a complex business need that they want to fulfil, but who don't know the best solution, if it even exists. So they surround themselves with advisors (consultants, project manager
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by EwanToo 15y ago
Somewhat ironically, I can't get to that site.
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Nothing Wrong With Shadows(storagebod.com)
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by EwanToo 15y ago
When did you ever win an argument once you've offended the other party? I've offended plenty of people, and I can't recall ever winning an argument against them afterwards - at that point, things like facts and customer benefits are irrelev
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by EwanToo 15y ago
It's an extremely poor redesign, there's dozens of examples that could be picked apart, like the way that when you're reading an email in your Inbox, the "spam" and "delete" icons are icons, but when you read an email in your Spam folder, t
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MongoPress - The MongoDB CMS - High-Performance NoSQL Web Management(mongopress.org)
4 points by EwanToo 15y ago|0 comments
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Eventually consistent(markcathcart.com)
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by EwanToo 15y ago
Bing is a very good search engine, pretty much identical to Google for my searches.
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4 ways Microsoft is screwing the desktop virtualization industry(brianmadden.com)
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by EwanToo 15y ago
For 2, I just used this short command line: http://pastebin.com/4nAWNrgV I've stuck it on pastebin instead of in this comment, so it doesn't spoil it for anyone not looking.
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OPERA experiment reports anomaly in flight time of neutrinos(press.web.cern.ch)
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by EwanToo 15y ago
Yes, I've bricked my old Macbook by doing that (for several months). I bought a new laptop, so closed down my old Macbook, and stuck it away. A few months later, I found I wanted to grab file from the old macbook, and noticed it wouldn't ru
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Dave Winer is Wrong About Hackdays(shkspr.mobi)
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Ever right-clicked and dragged? Start now | Wizard of Excel(wizardofexcel.com)
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New technique for mass-producing microbots inspired by pop-up books and origami(gizmag.com)
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Are You a Geek or Nerd?(blog.resumebear.com)
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Data scientist - the best gig in the future(blogs.technet.com)
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UK to announce website blocking proposals “imminently” | ZDNet(zdnet.com)
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Google Wallet PIN security cracked - here's what you need to know(androidcentral.com)
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Firmware bug exposes 1000s of TrendNet web cams(bbc.co.uk)
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NoOps means no hard decisions?(ewanleith.com)
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by EwanToo 15y ago
Well... it does, doesn't it? But reddit obviously aren't bothered (and give you all the tools to build your own reddit), so why should anyone else be? https://github.com/reddit/

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