This site uses MaxCDN for static file serving as it’s the best price per gigabyte CDN provider I have found. There are many other CDN providers out there with varying CDN prices and minimum bandwidth purchase amounts. MaxCDN has been criticised for having no Asian pops of presences (POPs) – or what they...
You’ve tweaked your web page site speed as much as you can using various Google Pagespeed and Yahoo YSlow site speed tools and online tests. You’ve converted your static files over to using CDN service providers such as MaxCDN. What’s next in your quest for squeezing out more speed for...
MySQL server and database character set and collations are confusing, I don’t understand it all as I mainly deal with MySQL default latin1 character set and latin1_swedish_ci collation for English based forums. But for non-English based vBulletin forums it can be a pain to get right especially if you rely...
My modded Centmin Nginx based installer has been updated to support menu based installation. For full details, you can grab the new release here. Update: Centmin Mod get’s it’s own logo. I used Denmark font for the text :) Centmin Menu screenshots:
MariaDB 5.2.9 has been released. MariaDB 5.2.9 download here. This is a Stable release. A "stable" MariaDB release is equivalent to a MySQL "GA" release. Compared to MariaDB 5.2.8, MariaDB 5.2.9 is a bug-fix release. For a list of every change made in MariaDB 5.2.9, with links to detailed information...
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...
Setting up a single server for Tungsten Replicator master and local slave MySQL replication has made it alot easier to just fire up the one server to continue testing Tungsten Replicator’s features. This time, I’ll install a WordPress v3.2.1 and install HyperDB wordpress plugin to configure the WordPress installation to...
Previous Tungsten Replicator article dealt with MySQL master/slave server setup on two separate MariaDB MySQL servers (.101 master and .102 slave). This time I tried setting up both master and slave on the same single .101 server. To do this, I installed a second MariaDB 5.2.7 MySQL server instance on...
Name: George Liu
Online Handle: eva2000
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Occupation: vBulletin.com technical support since 2001
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