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    1. Sticky Thread Sticky: Troubleshoot and optimize your site for best performance (HOW-TO Guide)

      This may seem obvious, but it's also something most people overlook. How fast your site loads, or rather the perception of speed (more on that later)...

      Started by prosperent brian, 02-22-2013 11:01 AM
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      04-27-2013 05:45 AM Go to last post

    2. Sticky Thread Sticky: Cloudflare to speed up your sites!

      It's not every day that I come across a service that really blows my mind. Cloudflare is one such service. Would you like to decrease bandwidth...

      Started by prosperent brian, 06-19-2012 12:17 PM
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      prosperent brian
      07-02-2012 03:55 PM Go to last post

    1. Upgraded all servers to php 5.4.16

      Finally made the move to get away from php 5.3. A few changes required updates on our end, but so far, everything looks good. Let us know if you see...

      Started by prosperent brian, 06-11-2013 01:31 PM
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      prosperent brian
      06-12-2013 11:08 AM Go to last post

    2. Centos 6.x and Transparent Hugepages = bad

      Over the past few weeks I have been troubleshooting an odd behavior with our servers. Every few hours a machine will unexpectedly drop out of the...

      Started by prosperent brian, 06-03-2013 08:26 AM
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      prosperent brian
      06-04-2013 06:45 AM Go to last post

    3. 4 million searches per hour

      I just checked our logs, and over the past month we have averaged 4 million searches per hour through our system. Pretty crazy! That's almost 1200...

      Started by prosperent brian, 06-01-2013 07:47 AM
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      garydubbs
      06-01-2013 11:40 PM Go to last post

    4. Haproxy to speed up your servers

      Servers have limited resources. Disk I/O, memory, bandwidth. When you exceed any of these resource limits, things slow down. Normally, you set limits...

      Started by prosperent brian, 05-31-2013 09:30 AM
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      prosperent brian
      06-01-2013 05:29 AM Go to last post

    5. ~ 10 minutes of downtime

      That was unexpected.... Most of you probably didn't notice, but we had our first downtime in a few months. Luckily it only lasted about 10...

      Started by prosperent brian, 05-30-2013 12:43 PM
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      prosperent brian
      05-31-2013 06:47 AM Go to last post

    6. NUMA architecture and multi processor servers

      Modern multi processor systems use what is known as the NUMA architecture. It is important to note that when I say multi processor I mean physical...

      Started by prosperent brian, 04-22-2013 11:16 AM
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      prosperent brian
      04-22-2013 11:16 AM Go to last post

    7. Impact of memory allocators on server performance

      I recently came across an article about memory allocators over at mysql performance blog:...

      Started by prosperent brian, 03-11-2013 02:42 PM
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      prosperent brian
      04-17-2013 08:20 AM Go to last post

    8. Save bandwidth, save cpu, and cut back on junk traffic

      Cloudflare has a great feature that you may not be aware of. It's called thread control. It gives you a way to block ip's, ranges of ip's, and even...

      Started by prosperent brian, 03-21-2013 02:25 PM
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      Strykerraven
      04-04-2013 03:51 PM Go to last post

    9. ip's to block from your servers

      I ran some queries on our clicks table to find bad ip's that everyone here should block. Why block them? Well, it cuts down on requests to our api...

      Started by prosperent brian, 03-13-2013 12:59 PM
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      Zaphod
      03-14-2013 09:52 AM Go to last post

    10. 7 websites, 1gb server can't handle them...??!

      Okay so since last week I've been struggling getting 7 websites to respond properly. I've gone through my code (and maximized it using the groupCount...

      Started by AcidRaZor, 03-06-2013 07:23 AM
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      03-14-2013 01:09 AM Go to last post

    11. Memcached

      yum install memcached Did that and made the code use it. now I get blank results? Am I missing anything?

      Started by AcidRaZor, 03-06-2013 12:20 PM
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      AcidRaZor
      03-06-2013 02:24 PM Go to last post

    12. Varnish really your new best friend? Or should lightspeed be?

      I was doing some poking around and found this: http://www.litespeedtech.com/overview.html Apparently it's 6x faster than Apache and renders PHP...

      Started by AcidRaZor, 04-16-2012 05:51 AM
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      prosperent brian
      02-11-2013 03:19 PM Go to last post

    13. Updating one of our db servers today

      Today we are updating/upgrading one of our slave db servers. This server also handles the minify javascript for our reporting interface, so that may...

      Started by prosperent brian, 01-28-2013 09:14 AM
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      prosperent brian
      01-28-2013 01:15 PM Go to last post

    14. Image server maintenance 1/18/2013

      One of the drives in our RAID array that handles image serving needs to be replaced. We will be performing this maintenance on 1/18/13 01:00 - 04:00...

      Started by prosperent brian, 01-16-2013 10:52 AM
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      AcidRaZor
      01-22-2013 11:17 PM Go to last post

    15. Processor upgrades and more memcache

      Over the next couple days I will be upgrading 8 of our search servers from dual quad core processors to dual hex core processors. The upgrade allows...

      Started by prosperent brian, 12-05-2012 08:40 PM
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      prosperent brian
      12-06-2012 12:37 PM Go to last post

    16. ImageMagick and threading

      I posted about this months ago, but ran into a new issue. Basically, by default ImageMagick is compiled to be multi-threaded. How is that a problem?...

      Started by prosperent brian, 10-16-2012 01:15 PM
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      AcidRaZor
      10-18-2012 11:42 PM Go to last post

    17. More memcache

      I added 4 more servers to our memcache pool today. We were basically seeing evictions from memcache after 2 or so hours of uptime. That's fine for...

      Started by prosperent brian, 10-04-2012 03:36 PM
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      prosperent brian
      10-04-2012 03:36 PM Go to last post

    18. Scalable image serving

      It took me almost 3 years to get to this point, so it's worth sharing. The problem? Serve billions of image requests each month, and at the...

      Started by prosperent brian, 06-26-2012 08:42 AM
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      AcidRaZor
      08-19-2012 10:44 AM Go to last post

    19. For anyone that uses xtrabackup

      I've been beating my head against the wall for 3 days now trying to figure out the exact cause of the crash this last Saturday morning. I knew why it...

      Started by prosperent brian, 06-25-2012 12:54 PM
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      prosperent brian
      06-25-2012 12:54 PM Go to last post

    20. Cloudflare

      Anyone use Cloudlflare to cut down on hosting costs? Any known incompatibilities with Prosperent?

      Started by blk, 05-16-2012 11:10 PM
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      prosperent brian
      06-19-2012 12:37 PM Go to last post

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