Download article as PDF In this article, we are going to cover one trick that is used in Web social circles to weather short-lived traffic storms. In most cases, servers collapse due to the server-side processing that needs to occur to produce the HTML that sent to the browser. Whether the server-side script is written [...]
Download article as PDF SpamAssassin (SA) is a program used for email spam filtering based on content matching rules. The Bayesian classifier that comes with SpamAssassin can be trained to recognize spam (or ham) based on a few sample emails. SA breaks the spam email into tokens or group of tokens for processing. Once SA [...]
Download article as PDF Spamd is one the highest resource consumer on a cPanel server. It allocates a lot of memory from the get-go and holds on to it throughout. There is a way to limit the number of spamd processes that are spawned. On a cPanel server, which is what this guide covers, there [...]
Download article as PDF IOPS stands for Input and Output Per Second. It is essentially a value that describes the raw capacity of a data storage system. It sets an expectation for performance. Some storage systems are said to be capable 120 IOPS and others 340 IOPS or much more. The number of IOPS, for [...]
Download article as PDF In this post, we shall go through the steps required to optimize a WordPress blog. If you are a current customer of UNIXy (http://www.unixy.net), do know that we are happy to implement these changes for your blog free of charge. We are a fully managed provider so do take advantage of [...]
Download article as PDF Varnish is an excellent Web accelerator that can be made to proxy requests in and out of a cluster of somewhat more fully fledged Web servers like Apache or Litespeed. It has some great features like its compiled language, called VCL, and C-like programming API. Large vBulletin deployments tend to be [...]
