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Web Tech Articles Recap

In the last 12 months, I have written quite a few articles which I myself keep referencing back to or linking back to for other folks. So thought I’d revisit them with an all in one listing. Hope you folks, find some of these articles useful. If you do, don’t forget to hit the social...

Tungsten Replicator: vBulletin Suite v4.1.6 configured for MariaDB MySQL Master/Slave Replication

Last article involved setting up WordPress with HyperDB plugin for Tungsten Replicator master/slave MariaDB MySQL replication. This time, we’ll look at configuring vBulletin Suite v4.1.6 for Tungsten Replicator master/slave MariaDB MySQL replication. Both .101 master (default 3306 port) and .101 local slave (3309 port) use MariaDB 5.2.7 MySQL servers. First I uploaded a vBulletin v4.1.6...

vBulletin 3.x to vBulletin 4.x / 4.1.x / 4.2.x upgrade process for large vBulletin forums

eva2000’s upgrade process My vB 3.8.x to vB 4.1.x upgrade process which I personally use myself as well as for private paying clients is as follows and assumes: you have ssh2 telnet access your vB 3.x forums are only using MySQL default MyISAM/Memory tables with NO InnoDB tables you have enough free disk space to...

Web site page loading speed optimization online tools & tests

Web site page load speed optimization is now the topic of discussion on alot of online webmaster forums. Ever since Google announced changes to their search algorithms to factor in web site page loading speed, there have been alot of tools, guides and resources popping up on the internet for helping webmasters reduce their site’s...

CentminMod.com New Site & Next Stable Release

Centmin Mod LEMP Project’s web site centminmod.com, got a total site redesign to coincide with the release of Centmin Mod 1.2.3-eva2000.08 stable version which has undergone 12+ months of beta and testing development to support CentOS 6 and CentOS 7. You can check out the What’s New page for the changes.

New Centmin Mod Community forum

Centmin Mod project has grown with a lot of users in the past 12 months. As such, the Centmin Mod’s Google+ Community has moved to a dedicated community forum at http://community.centminmod.com. Centmin Mod users have been asking for an alternative to Google+ Community based discussions and it’s now available.

Ghost open source node.js based blogging platform

Recently, I came across the node.js based Ghost open source blogging platform while reading Jim Hirschauer’s blog post and straight away fell in love with Ghost’s small footprint and simplicity. Ghost was born from a Kickstarter project and uses Markdown for it’s mark up system which needs some getting use to at first. Ghost Road Map and Planned Features list. Some background on Ghost here and the official Ghost...

Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) vB 3/4/5 Compatibility

With Windows 8.1 GA release, Internet Explorer 11 will make it’s presence known more. vBulletin version 3, 4 and 5 currently have some incompatibility issues with IE11 and for now fellow colleague and vB tech, Zachery has released 3 vB documented work arounds for IE11 detection. You can find the documented work arounds below: IE11...

vBulletin hacked forums: Clean Up Time

With recent vBulletin hacking going on, here are some of my personal suggestions from my personal experience in cleaning up the mess. I have continuously updated and extended the info provided below, so be sure to check back regularly for more updates. You can use Chrome Page Monitor extension which allows you to be notified...

Google Analytics Page Timings and Secondary Dimensions

Google Analytics‘ Page Timings can become an obsession for some page speed fanatics like myself. But how many folks actually break down the default Page Timings display by Secondary Dimensions such a geographical location such as City, Continent, Country/Territory and Language? Some interesting page timing speeds are reported once you break down by geographical locations. Below...

Open Litespeed: Tuning Server Settings Part 2

In OpenLiteSpeed Tuning Server Settings Part 1, I outlined some of the most common settings I usually tweak. Well in Part 2 decided to just automate the tuning with a shell script I wrote. The shell script would usually be run in SSH telnet after initial OpenLiteSpeed installation. Feel free to modify it for your...