Tom Gatermann told me about a nice tool for Debian (and presumably Ubuntu) called checkrestart. Sometimes, even though you did an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade to bring your system up to date, you can still be running the out-of-date version of something. That’s the problem checkrestart helps you solve.
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Here’s a nice Linux tool: checkrestart
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 12, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/03/heres-a-nice-linux-tool-checkrestart/
Another easy Apache tweak
I ran my site through Google Page Speed on Tuesday, and scored a surprising 88 out of 100–higher than I expected. Getting above 90 is going to take some optimizations on files that WordPress updates may change, so I’m hesitant to do that, but one thing it told me to do was to cache more [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 20, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/02/another-easy-apache-tweak/
Making gradual improvements, starting with whatever bugs you the most
A long project can be paralyzing at times, making it hard to figure out where to start. A trick that I learned in model railroading is to just work on whatever small percentage of the project that bothers you the most. Then, when that’s done, cycle back, create another subproject that fixes whatever bugs you [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 10, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/02/making-gradual-improvements-starting-with-whatever-bugs-you-the-most/
The benefits of doing IT at home, too
Earlier this week, The Register touted the benefits of having a home lab. That lab doesn’t necessarily have to be elaborate. But there is definitely something to be said for having some equipment that you can learn and experiment on, and that can break without the world ending.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 9, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/02/the-benefits-of-doing-it-at-home-too/
A minor (but vital) Apache performance tweak
My problems seem to have become more rare since I started blocking spambots and tuned PHP and Apache but last night my server ran out of memory again and started timing out. It turns out I still had a critical problem, but one that’s easy to fix with a relatively simple Perl script.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 27, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/01/a-minor-but-vital-apache-performance-tweak/
Cutting Apache preforks seems to help small web servers
I’ve had a ton of downtime this week (this seems to be the busy time of year for my web server), but I think I traced the problem to a known issue.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on November 30, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/11/cutting-apache-preforks-seems-to-help-small-web-servers/
Sorry about the downtime
MySQL crashed on me sometime late Sunday or early Monday. Somehow the server managed to serve up 5-6 pages per day in a catatonic state on Monday and Tuesday. So I spent my lunch break digging into the problem.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on November 28, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/11/sorry-about-the-downtime-2/
Four simple steps to optimize WordPress
A couple of years ago, I stood up a WordPress server. I made no effort to tune it, let alone turbocharge it, which is a decision I later came to regret. If your site gets more than a few hundred hits per day, you need to tune it. If you want to get more than [...]
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/02/four-simple-steps-to-optimize-wordpress/