Webmaster Mike

Network Statistics

2008-03-30T02:02:17Z

I developed a new network statistic reporting process to try and catch Apache performance problems before they happen.

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Apache web server performance

2008-03-27T14:59:49Z

I corrected a couple instances of poor web server performance with some Apache configuration file changes.

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Pruning Your Email List

2007-12-03T21:10:56Z

We use Ezine Director to manage our email newsletter and recently decided to delete old subscribers who weren't showing any activity.

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September Network Traffic

2007-09-21T19:03:50Z

Our new VPS hosting plan has lots of bandwidth capacity.

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Successfull Restore After Hard Disk Crash

2007-09-06T23:56:07Z

Having a current website backup sure helped when my old VPS had a hard disk crash.

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Plesk 8.1.1 Upgrade Part 2

2007-05-14T16:11:48Z

I had one outstanding problem with my Plesk 8.1.1 upgrade. After the upgrade I started getting errors in Logrotate, and syslog starting doing weird things with my log files....

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Network Traffic

2007-05-08T19:14:17Z

I finally got around to doing some simple network stats. Our VPS is on a 1.5Mbps connection, and there are times I wonder if we're pushing the limit. I had tried to estimate this from by our http log files. But using /proc/net/dev instead is much simpler and much more accurate.

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Plesk 8.1.1 Upgrade

2007-04-30T17:28:36Z

I upgraded to Plesk 8.1.1 awhile back. I was a bit nervous about the whole thing. But the actual upgrade was quick, unfortunately it wasn't painless.

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VMSTAT part 3

2007-03-29T15:24:47Z

I just re-ran my CPU monitoring for a typical weekday. Not much different from last time. But I thought I'd include how I'm generating these charts....

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VMSTAT part 2

2007-03-16T22:30:58Z

I revised my perl program to capture the output of vmstat. Now VMSTAT is left running and the output is captured by my perl program and saved in MySQL....

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Monitoring CPU usage with VMSTAT

2007-03-13T22:58:28Z

I thought I'd do a little CPU monitoring using vmstat to determine if our VPS is still meeting our needs.

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Contact Form in PHP

2007-03-13T22:49:07Z

It took many hours to get a simple Contact Me page working. But I learned a little PHP and HTML along the way.

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AdSense and JavaScript

2007-03-12T15:20:25Z

Use the NOSCRIPT HTML tag to display alternate ads to the 10% of users who have turned off JavaScript and thus won't see your AdSense ads.

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Text formatting MT Plugins

2007-03-09T20:08:19Z

I just installed the MT-Textile, SmartyPants, MTCodeBeautifier plugins for Movable Type. I hope they make creating entries, especially those with code samples a bit easier.

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