After Part 1 compression tests, I further improved my gziptest.sh script and added three other compression tools to the test, zip, lbzip2 and p7zip. Update: For a more recent live production compression comparison benchmark test between pigz vs gzip on dual Xeon E5520 with 8 physical cpu cores and 16...
A Cpanel feature request thread came up for inclusion for pigz a parallel multi-threaded implementation of gzip which dramatically speeds up compression. Update: Part 2 compression benchmarks have been posted here. Pigz definitely does speed up compression times, I implemented parallel multi-threaded versions of gzip and bzip2 – pigz and...
Folks who know me are aware of the fact that besides tweaking vBulletin servers for performance, I also tweak and tune PC hardware. I’ve been busy with vBulletin related work so haven’t touched PC hardware side for a while. But Intel has a new platform of motherboard and cpu products...
Just got this message from Rackspace.com that effecive December 5, 2011, they will be stopping sale and support for some older Linux distribution images in their Rackspace Cloud hosting offerings. Hopefully, this means more recent Linux distrubutions are supported including CentOS 5.7, 6.0, 6.1. Hello! Currently, the following Linux Distributions...
Back in March, I illustrated how two Litespeed web server based vB clients of mine were using vBulletin Datastore Cache feature + vB Optimise Pro plugin to offload some MySQL load to 2x or 4x Memcached servers. You can offload caching to APC Cache or Xcache as well if you...
The Centminmod.com FAQ has been updated. Centmin Mod FAQ How to install Centmin Mod ? How to setup Nginx domain name Vhost and NSD DNS ? I want to log the entire Centmin Mod install process ? How long does it take to install Centmin Mod ? What CentOS versions...
Overnight, the old site design broke for no reason just giving me blank pages which weren’t PHP related. I narrowed it down to the style itself and a wordpress caching plugin conflict. So I quickly had to switch to a different style for this site and temporarily disable caching for...
Recently, while working on a vBulletin clients’ forums I encountered some web site red boxed background malware infection alerts. Using Google Chrome web browser with Google Safe Browsing technology enabled for phishing and malware protection, I experienced one of these malware alerts. You will either get one of the two...
Name: George Liu
Online Handle: eva2000
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Occupation: vBulletin.com technical support since 2001
This is personal blog and no way officially affiliated with vBulletin.com. [More...]