Tag Archive for ‘software’ at T. Longren

Tag Archive for 'software'

WordPress 2.1 MySQL Requirements

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on January 16, 2007

. 0 Comments Tags: blog, blogging, Internet, Personal, software, WordPress, wordpress-2.1.

Ryan Boren posted about MySQL requirements in the upcoming WordPress 2.1 release. WordPress 2.1 will require MySQL 4.0, MySQL 4.1 won’t be required until WordPress 2.2 comes around. So, WordPress 2.1 will require at least MySQL 4.0 to function correctly. No more MySQL 3 people. If you’re still using MySQL 3, it’s far past time to upgrade.

MySQL AB discontinued support for MySQL 4.0 back in September, so it’s likely hosting companies will be upgrading to 4.1 within a year or so.

Also, WordPress 2.1 beta 3 is out, it’s running on this blog right now.

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Moving Servers At Dreamhost

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Tyler

on December 8, 2006

in Dreamhost, Internet and Personal

. 0 Comments Tags: Dreamhost, Internet, longren.org, monitoring, performance, Personal, software, www.

After making this post, I submitted a support ticket to Dreamhost. Justin at Dreamhost replied back with a pretty solid sounding solution:

I did notice a few busy sites on the apaches for 2 of your domains. I started a move to another IP/apache which should complete in a few hours, and we can see if that apache turns out to be more stable. Since the server-status page for the old 2 showed an uptime of about 1 hour, likely the sites were causing that apache instance to time out and need to be restarted, resulting in a bit of downtime. Give it a try for a day and if you still have problems, let me know!

Perfect. Switch my domains over to a new httpd process with less activity. Makes sense. Well, after that was done, not much of an improvement was seen, as you can probably tell.

Today, I received another email from Justin saying he noticed longren.org was still slow to respond. He offered to move me to another server, assuming I was willing to have some downtime. He even asked if there was a time I’d prefer the move to be made. I asked him if 10:00 PST would work, and it did. So, this site is going to be offline for a few hours tonight while it’s being moved to a new server. The actual switch won’t take very long, I’ll just have to wait a few hours for the DNS to start pointing to the new IP.

Hopefully everything will be up and running along nice and smoothly tomorrow morning. Also, Justin at Dreamhost is awesome. He’s been very attentive and always offers possible solutions. Thanks again Justin!

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Horrible Repsonse Time

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Tyler

on December 4, 2006

in Dreamhost, Internet and Personal

. 1 Comment Tags: Dreamhost, Internet, longren.org, monitoring, performance, Personal, site24x7, software, www.

Longren.org has been really, really slow the last week or so. This site has never been this slow to load, even when I was hosting it out of my house on my cable connection. Granted, I didn’t get the traffic back then that I do now, it still shouldn’t be this slow.

Last time longren.org was being slow as shit, I posted an image of a graph from Site24×7, like I’ve done in this post. The response time in the earlier image is horrible, 4510 ms, but that’s a lot lower than I’m seeing now. As you can see from the image above in this post, the current average response time over the last 7 days is 6614 ms.

This has to be a result of something going on at Dreamhost. I say that because sometimes pages on longren.org will load up in a snap. Most of the time though they take between 15 and 30 seconds to load. Even sending queries to the database is slower than normal. Database queries are usually done being executed within 1 or 2 seconds. Lately, it’s been taking 5 to 9 seconds. Something is definitely up. Perhaps I will submit a support ticket to Dreamhost tomorrow. Yay.

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A Cake For Firefox

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Tyler

on October 26, 2006

in Internet and Personal

. 0 Comments Tags: firefox, firefox-2.0, ie, ie7, Internet, internet-explorer, microsoft, mozilla-firefox, Personal, software.

Firefox recently released Firefox 2.0. There was a little slip-up with that release though, it hit some FTP servers earlier than it should have.

Anyway, the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft sent a cake to the Firefox team, congratulating them on their release of Firefox 2.0. Pretty weird huh? One would expect the cake to be full of poison, but that’s not the case. It’s simply a “job well done” present from the IE dev team to the Firefox guys.

It’s nice to see archenemies sending such nice gifts, even if it is Microsoft that’s involved. Can you feel the love?

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CSS Changes For IE7

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Tyler

on October 23, 2006

in Internet and Personal

. 1 Comment Tags: css, ie, ie7, Internet, internet-explorer, microsoft, Personal, software.

The Internet Explorer development team has posted a list of CSS changes made in Internet Explorer 7. There’s lot of good ones, lots. My favorite of all of them is PNG transparency. Transparent PNG’s will now show up correctly in Internet Explorer! yay!!

Other major changes include :hover for all elements and the implementation of position:fixed. Super. Welcome to the 21st century Internet Explorer.

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WordPress MU 1.0

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Tyler

on October 23, 2006

in Internet, Personal and WordPress

. 1 Comment Tags: bbpress, Internet, Personal, software, tech, WordPress, wordpress-mu, wordpress.com.

WordPress Multi-user 1.0 has been released. WordPress MU is designed for hosting and managing hundreds or thousands of blogs, similar to Wordpress.com. Setup of WordPress MU is considerably more difficult than setting up a stand-alone WordPress installation. Here’s some text from the post to the WordPress development blog:

WordPress MU is an official branch of WordPress that is designed for managing and hosting thousands of blogs instead of just one. It’s the software that powers WordPress.com, for example. MU has been in heavy development for about a year now, and we’ve finally polished it up to a place where we feel like it’s ready for public consumption. Since setup is a bit more complex than the 5-minute install of regular WordPress, MU is best suited for a more server-savvy audience. You can download it on the WordPress MU site.

bbPress 0.72 was also released. bbPress is a piece of forum software “with the WordPress touch”.

Head on over to the WordPress Development blog for more info on both of these products.

On a related note, WordPress 2.0.5 is still due out soon. Lorelle has a post in which she goes over a few of the changes we can expect in WordPress 2.0.5. Go check it out.

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