by Ruchira on October 11, 2010
LNMP ( Linux+Nginx+Mysql+PHP ) new version 0.5 was released few days ago. You might be already know that this blog runs on little bit modified LNMP 0.4 version. because of that I’m waiting to upgrade to latest version too. The latest version has minor nginx update to 0.7.67 while LNMP 0.4 has 0.7.65 . So nginx upgrade wasnt a huge one but it include major php upgrade to 5.2.14. The changelog says,
LNMP 0.5:
- Upgrading to Nginx 0.7.67, MySQL to 5.1.48, PHP to upgrade to 5.2.14, PHPMyAdmin to upgrade to 3.3.7 Upgrading to Nginx 0.7.67, MySQL to 5.1.48, PHP to upgrade to 5.2.14, PHPMyAdmin to upgrade to 3.3.7
- Nginx logs for security will be moved to / home / wwwlogs / below; Nginx logs for security will be moved to / home / wwwlogs / below;
- Change the way 32-bit 64-bit identification; Change the way 32-bit 64-bit identification;
- Add system time to adjust, to prevent errors caused compile time error; Increase the system time to adjust, to prevent errors caused compile time error;
- Optimization eAccelerator installation; Optimization eAccelerator install programs;
So just few upgrades without PHP. Unfortunately there is no upgrade 0.4 to 0.5 script as promised in user forum (All in Chinese) And some people asked the author including me that if he is going to introduce upgrade script no no replies for any of us for now.
Ill inform you if he is happy to provide upgrade system for your lnmp 0.4 installation
And I have upgraded the install instructions to install the latest LNMP 0.5
by Ruchira on October 11, 2010
Recently Net4Ever CEO contacted me about reviewing their shared hosting service after trying for some months because he said most customers thinks that its oversold because the low price. But I don’t had time for reviewing shared hosting because all of my sites require more than shared hosting.Those times I was needed a VPS for try out one of my new project. So I asked Branko (CEO of Net4Ever) that if he can supply VPS I can write a review after sometime. So he agreed to provide a vps for 6 months of testing. And he asked which location that I want to place my VPS. He offers 2 locations Germany,USA and 3 data centers in USA Softlayer Data center. I thought I must try Germany for my new project because Germany gives me low latency that USA data centers. The setup was instant and I received login details in less than a minute.
The VPS control panel is FluidVM and its very nice stable control panel these days.
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by Ruchira on October 6, 2010
Today I checked my spam box to find out any important emails caught as spam. Bummer I saw several Itune Store receipts came in to my spambox. Some of items on those receipts are valued than $500. I didn’t bought any of them but Im registered member of itunes store but not under this xxx@ruchirablog.com extension. Funny thing is any of those receipts doesn’t under my name and all the links mentioned like http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/ directs to spammers domain! not itunes 
by Ruchira on October 4, 2010
This is a nice tool and it got exploding traffic for it recently but best thing is its still free! Im going to write about a way that you can get more than 2500 web site backlinks for your site. Logically all the links will not work as said but we can expect at least 1000 google crawled backlinks from this tool!
IMtalk provides this tool for free. And its not regular backlinks like you think. It creates pages on some pupolar whois,serverinfo viewing sites on the internet like whois.domaintools.com and google visits those sites regularly and crawl them So you will get backlinks. It won’t get any high quality page ranked backlinks but those amount of backlinks are enough to boost your website for at least 1 step in page rank like 1 to 2.
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by Ruchira on October 4, 2010
If you have busy site which gets thousands of visitors a day you might be having a hard time managing your server load. If you are using apache it makes it harder. The best decision is moving to nginx or lighttpd. If Im the one who manage the server Ill choose Nginx because its little bit ahead of lighttpd.
- If you are newbie for nginx read my guide for installing nginx with all the necessary packages- http://www.ruchirablog.com/nginxmysqlphpfpm-auto-installer-centos-5-debian/
Nginx beats apache in all aspects. Some people using Nginx as reverse proxy to apache its good solution but all the dynamic php content is handled by apache. This 2010 and most of the sites are dynamic !
by Ruchira on October 3, 2010
Now Im running Ubuntu+Nginx+PHP-FPM+Memcached on this blog. And pingdom says my website loads about in 4 seconds and I want to drive it further! I know this kind of page load time really blows many CDN enabled sites. But I wanted to try out and then I have faced problems here is info- http://www.ruchirablog.com/about-downtime/
Hmm my decision to use cloudfront turned to real bad. But Ill do more testing on my testing environment. 
But I want to move my images to elsewhere because to deliver it more fast ( I dont think it will be more fast than my nginx setup ) for readers in different countries and continents . And also to reduce disk usage of my server
by Ruchira on October 3, 2010
Hmm I know you probably noticed the last down time happened few hours ago. 
Thats because I crazily wanted to tune my blog to get maximum loading speed. Grrrr.
I was installed centos 5.5+Nginx+PHP-FPM+Memcached on linode and trust me it was very fast. But I always wanted to tweak it to go further. Pingdom said that front page was loading at average of 4.5 seconds and it is pretty fast and beating most of CDN enabled sites out there! But hey I wanted to load pages in 2sec :EVIL
- What you did to get 2sec load time
I signed up fro amazon s3 and cloudfront to move my theme files and media files to edgecast cloud storage. Then started to move files to CDN with “W3 Total Cache” wordpress plugin and saw that some of images on my posts were pointing to amazon cloudfront domain instead of my own Cname domain. And also some of images were broken during upload. So I decided to get back to old state by restoring from a complete linux disk image backup made few hours ago. And clicked “Restore”
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by Ruchira on October 3, 2010
I have message for people who say’s hey windows sucks switch for Ubuntu. Well people this is not a matter of fact about paid and free. In my personal experience I love Microsoft windows and I’m using Ubuntu for this web server
- Windows is not for servers!
But hey do you know that 2 most popular web apps that i use run on Microsoft IIS . They are respectively Godaddy and sitemeter. So you cant say that microsoft is not for servers.
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