Facebook performance woes today
It seems that of late a number of successful community web sites have been experiencing problems in scalability and performance. Today it’s Facebook. Initially I got a “Problem loading page” browser message.
Read moreDeleting from ARCHIVE tables
I can’t say I’ve used the ARCHIVE storage engine before, but at the NY MySQL Meetup last night there was discussion of the improvements to ARCHIVE in 5.1 and the fact that you could not DELETE from archive.
Read moreCheck your spelling
I’ve been Plurking more lately rather then Twittering . I’d like to offer to help out at Twitter if I could find the right person to talk to. I’m no English major, but I do like to ensure my spelling is correct (at least for the bulk of the audience).
Read moreTime Warner Cable Speed
I had my Time Warner cable installed yesterday, a rather painless process. Reported as having Internet speeds of 10MB down and 1/2 MB up, these were confirmed with speedtest.net Installation – July 5
Read moreToday’s wicked cool site – ping.fm
I posted on my Plurk I wished for an easier way to update my status on social sites such as Facebook , Twitter and Plurk . The answer I got was Ping.
Read moreGenerating Word Clouds
I came across a wicked cool tool at wondle.net . I wanted to create a word cloud for the back of a business card, now I know how. <img src=“http://wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/05557/Ronald_Bradford_About_2"style=“padding:4px;border:1px solid #ddd” />
Read moreSetting up on EC2
Thanks to my friend Dustin, and his EC2 demo using Elasticfox Firefox Extension for Amazon EC2 I got an EC2 image setup. With other references Link 1 ,Link 2 ,Link 3 I was also able to create my own AMI.
Read moreGiving control of your data to the cloud
I’ve been doing some research and evaluation of more cloud computing. Specifically my focus has been on data store, and considering how to augment an existing operation using a popular database such as MySQL .
Read moreYour site unavailable page
When your site is down what do people see? If overloaded to you respond well or not? For much larger organizations with the infrastructure and DNS management this should be part of your DR strategy.
Read moreWhat determines authoritative information
I had need to visit a particular store in New York on Sunday on referral by a friend. I knew they had two locations. Like all tech savvy people I googled sports authority new york .
Read moreDon’t use HostMonster
Following a 2-4 day outage from my hosting provider of my dedicated server, I decided to move non critical websites to shared hosting. I have one with 1&1 but I created a second account to share load and act as a backup with www.
Read moreHandling Disaster 101
I’ve had to accept the “practice what you preach” pill recently due to a disaster at my hosting provider. See Learning from a Disaster . While it was my own personal site on a dedicated server in question and not a business generating review I found that my MySQL Backup Strategy was incomplete ( It is also based on code 4 years old).
Read moreLearning from a Disaster
As Farhan has already pointed out to us, Disaster is Inevitable – Must shutdown generators . My primary hosting provider The Planet had a serious meltdown, 9,000 servers unavailable, DNS and administration application .
Read moreWorking with Google App Engine
Yesterday I took a more serious look at Google App Engine , I got a developer account some weeks ago. After going though the getting started demo some time ago, I chose an idea for a FaceBook Application and started in true eXtreme Programming (XP) style (i.
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