Author Archives: Sean
Managing hardware RAID with MegaCLI
A guide and a few examples on the usage of the Dell PERC / LSI MegaRaid MegaCLI utility. 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
Increase WordPress performance with WPSuperCache
Last week, we covered speeding up WordPress with Memcache, which was simple enough, but most shared hosting plans don’t allow you to run memcached. Even if you are allowed to run the memcache daemon on your server and you have … Continue reading
Handle More Traffic in WordPress with Memcache
Memcache is a High-performance, distributed object caching system. WordPress is a great piece of blogging / CMS software. If you’re running a WordPress site and you’re having growing pains, you can combine the two to handle increased traffic and, more … Continue reading
Finding the status of Magento cron jobs / tasks
As covered in our last article, you should have a “cron job” (crontab) set up to run Magento’s cron.php file every so often (15 minutes or so is fine) via PHP directly on the server to take care of housekeeping … Continue reading
Speed up Magento DataFlow (Import / Export)
For as long as we can remember, Magento has had issues with Import and Export profiles, especially regarding performance. We have tried many different solutions for speeding up DataFlow and dealing with other import / export related issues. We’ve found … Continue reading
