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vBulletin 3.8.7 and vBulletin Blog 2.0.3 maintenance releases

vBulletin 3.8.7 and vBulletin Blog 2.0.3 maintenance releases have been announced.  vBulletin 3.x forum owners with expired licenses fear not as vBulletin has a 3 month maintenance extension upgrade option for you to extend your vB 3.x license to be able to update to vBulletin 3.8.7 and/or vBulletin Blog 2.0.3. Just log into your vBulletin...

vBulletin Android App released

vBulletin Android app has been released.  The app is compatible with all Android devices version 1.6+, and has similar functionality to vBulletin’s previously released iPhone app. These 2 applications will collectively form their new Mobile Suite, and will be available on sale very soon for a discounted price of $199.  vBulletin Mobile Suite will work...

WHM/Cpanel – MariaDB MySQL 5.2.4 drop in replacement

MariaDB MySQL and Percona MySQL servers are two performance fork alternatives to MySQL.com’s own MySQL versions.  While some folks refer to them as forks, they are in fact drop in replacements.  So if you’re upgrading from MySQL 5.0.x, the same MySQL 5.1 upgrade notes apply. I’ve been playing around alot with both and lean towards...

Unixy.net Cpanel Varnish Plugin 1.4.4b released

Unixy.net Cpanel Varnish Plugin 1.4.4b has been released. Change log: Performance improvements and less long-term hoggin of memory template configurations to choose from in “templates/” directory Ability to control static files TTL via WHM Various minor bug fixes Looks like you can now choose from several preset Varnish startup configuration templates from small, medium, large,...

Litespeed web server v4.0.20 – Litespeed Cache function improvements

Seems Litespeed web server v4.0.20 has been released with support for CloudLinux SecureLVE but more importantly includes additional improvements for Litespeed Cache. A new response header called X-LiteSpeed-Cache-Control has been added to Litespeed which allows more accurate detection of what pages to cache or not.  For instance with v4.0.20, when implementing Litespeed Cache with vBulletin...

Hard drive bad sectors – Spinrite v6.0 to the rescue

Past couple of days have been tiresome trying to fix my main work pc’s OS hard drive – 640GB Samsung HD642JJ SATAII.  Symptoms included, no longer being able to complete windows 7 create system images – once i hit 161GB out of 320GB, the system would reboot at bad sector point.  Similar problems occurred with...

Litespeed Cache vs Varnish Cache – some thoughts

My main work pcs’ hard drive is failing with bad sectors, so while i run Spinrite (13+ hrs process) to try and fix them enough to be able to clone my hdd, I have some free time on my hands and thought I’d sit down and write up my experiences so far with two lovely...