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APC should be enabled by default

April 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Drupal performance, hosting

PHP is slow. This should not be a huge revelation for any of us, and this is not because PHP is a bad programing language, or because Python or Ruby are better. This is because it is an interpreted language. Every time you execute a PHP script it is going to do the exact same [...]

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Why is there a system change freeze – especially on black monday and black friday?

December 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Down Time, hosting

When I started working in systems, one of my first client was a major bank.  Yes, this was back in the mainframe batch processing days.  They never did any system updates when they ran the month end, quarter end and especially year end. I always thought that they just weren’t confident in their system folks [...]

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Black Monday

December 1st, 2008 · No Comments · hosting, monitoring

E-commercre Report; Several of the most popular online merchants have struggled to cope with the heavy holiday traffic, a survey shows. Ok, that was NYTimes 2003 – what about now?   This season there have already been several announcements of ecommerce snafus.  Sears.com site shut down for a couple of hours and there have even [...]

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Utilizing google apps email as a web host – sign of strenght or weakness?

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Installation

PrometHost offers best of class hosting for websites, databases, and other services such as email, domain registration, spam filtering, etc. We have recently made a decision to focus on three things for our hosting offering: – security – reliability – scalability Performance is obviously important, and we help with performance on a case by case [...]

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