So a while back I wrote about – Running Unattended/Automatic Security Updates on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid, which was great and all. But now Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is out, so I’m running all new installs on that (woohoo new 9.x versions of PostgreSQL, php-fpm in PHP core etc) and the previous update method I was […]
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High Availability MongoDB & Replica Sets – A How To & Kinda Tutorial
So it’s kinda weird, last year I did 2 talks in the same month, 1 on WordPress (High Performance WordPress – Scaling, Tuning, Optimizing & More) & one which was more random (The History Of The Future at WebCamp KL. This year I ended up doing 2 presentations in the same week (actually on 2 […]
How To Install The Latest APC 3.1.9 On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS & W3 Total Cache Optimization
Yah another geeky post – woohoo! Anyway, when you are running high traffic WordPress sites – it’s very common to use W3 Total Cache (known as w3tc usually). And with this you need some kind of in memory cache to store objects/db queries etc – the choice for a single server setup is generally APC […]
Running Unattended/Automatic Security Updates on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid
I thought I may as well share/dump some of the tech stuff I learn on here because a) A lot of the stuff I find on Google is complete crap and b) If I forget how to do it I can just search my own blog (w00t) c) It might be useful to someone else. […]
High Performance WordPress – Scaling, Tuning, Optimizing & More
So this past weekend I gave a (nearly) 2 hour talk on High Performance WordPress at Wordconf KL 2011 – it’s a commonly asked question and a lot of people run WordPress but are clueless when it comes to tuning or optimizing their setup. The talk I gave was pretty technical and in point form, […]
Referal Spam and Comment Spam & Site Updates
Ok so I finally got around to doing all the things I meant to do for a long time… I also added the latest comments plugin on the index page, which although it’s totally useless, it’s pretty neat anyway. The latest problem I’ve been having is with Referal Spam and Comment Spam. For those that […]
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