Monthly Archives: November 2010
Nexcess Adopts Ksplice Uptrack “Rebootless” Technology
Ann Arbor, Michigan, December 1, 2010 — Nexcess, a leading provider of shared, dedicated, and eCommerce web hosting services, announced it has adopted Ksplice’s Uptrack “rebootless” Linux technology, bringing its customers a new class of best-of-breed server offerings.
Scripting Magento
There are times when the web-based administration of Magento hits a snag and no longer works as quickly as we’d like it to. Perhaps product exports or backups time out, or refreshing the URL rewrite table seems to run for … Continue reading
Accessing Navigation Timing Data (Web Timing)
Accurately measuring webpage performance across different browsers has always been a challenge. While there are benchmarks that are often quoted (such as the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark and the ACID3 compliance test), measuring total page load time has always been problematic. … Continue reading
Piping Too Much Data
I recently ran in to a problem where I had a 1.1 gig Apache transfer log and I needed to produce a list of IPs that had accessed two URLs more than 5 times but exclude a /24 CIDR block … Continue reading
Changing Your Linux I/O Scheduler
When performance tuning any modern Linux system, selecting a proper I/O scheduler is an important but often under looked optimization. Linux comes configured with the cfq (Completely Fair Queuing) scheduler which has been optimized for best performance over a wide … Continue reading
A Decade of Web Hosting
Saturday, October 30th 2010 marked our 10 year anniversary online and as a web hosting company. Nexcess.net started in October of 2000 in the back room of my house in Southfield, MI with two web-servers, two DNS servers and some … Continue reading
