Author Archives: Ben

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An open-source advocate and nature lover.

Important Magento Security Update




Magento recently posted an important security update that affects all versions prior to CE 1.7.0.2 and EE 1.12.0.2. The vulnerability is specifically in the Zend Framework’s Zend_XmlRpc module, which means that any application built on the Zend Framework is potentially … Continue reading

Posted in Magento, Nexcess, Security | 1 Comment

Installing Varnish for your Magento Store on CentOS 6




You’ve compressed and minified your JavaScript and CSS, optimized your database, and tweaked your caching config, and yet you still can’t seem to get that time-to-first-byte to drop below one second. Tweaking dynamic applications like Magento can be frustrating. Sometimes … Continue reading

Posted in Nexcess | 9 Comments

Magento Enterprise and Memcached




I recently worked with one of our Magento Enterprise Cluster clients who wanted to improve the performance of their site. This client was using our Content Delivery Network to offload the serving of static assets, and was following all of … Continue reading

Posted in Magento | 12 Comments

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

Posted in Linux, Magento, php | 1 Comment