Monthly Archives: March 2011

Nexcess’ Dearborn, MI Data Center to Undergo SSAE-16 Audit by BrightLine

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Will

Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 28, 2011– Nexcess, an Enterprise eCommerce hosting provider whose wholly-owned facilities reside in Dearborn, Michigan, has announced an SSAE-16 type I and II standards audit of their data center by BrightLine CPAs & Associates, Inc, formerly … Continue reading →

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Optimizing APC Cache Settings for Magento

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Brad

APC (Alternative PHP Cache) is an opcode cache for PHP that works very well to speed up page loads when used on servers running Magento. There are many opcode caches available (APC, accelerator, xcache, etc) which can be used with … Continue reading →

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The 54 Most Useful Magento Articles of All Time

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Corey

Magento has emerged as one of the Internet’s leading eCommerce solutions, and perhaps the greatest reason for this is the massive community that is constantly documenting new tricks and writing extensions. Want to get started with your own web-based storefront? … Continue reading →

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Using The Hosts File Test Your Magento Site

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Chris

We often have clients that set-up a staging environment in addition to their production e-commerce environment. We also do a lot of website moves for clients who want to see their site on our servers before the final cut-over takes … Continue reading →

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Nexcess to Exhibit at Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition 2011 (IRCE2011)

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Will

Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 14, 2011 – Nexcess, an enterprise eCommerce hosting provider, has announced that they will be exhibiting at Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition 2011 (IRCE2011). The event is scheduled to take place from June 14-17 at the … Continue reading →

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Upgrading to Magento 1.5.0.1

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Ben

Magento version 1.5.0.1 was released on February 9th, 2011. It adds a number of performance improvements in the areas of dataflow and checkout, and comes with the hot new Magento Mobile module installed. While we have not run into the … Continue reading →

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Diagnosing MySQL Performance Bottlenecks With Maatkit

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Sean

Hello again! Last time we looked at optimizing performance of web apps, we were checking out how to diagnose PHP performance bottlenecks using XDebug to generate valgrind-style logs of what PHP was doing. While that can be immensely useful in … Continue reading →

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