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Centmin Mod Project turns 2yrs old !

Centmin Mod celebrates 2yrs since first release back on June 9th, 2011 ! That’s totally crazy that time has flown by so quickly. In the past 24 months, Centmin Mod stable release has been downloaded more than 7,000+ times (excluding beta releases) ! Some of largest vBulletin and not so large Xenforo and IPB forums are...

MariaDB 5.5.31 Stable (GA) MySQL Server Release

  MariaDB 5.5.31 MySQL server has been released. Release Notes: https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5531-release-notes Changelog: https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5531-changelog Downloads: https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.31 Already started playing with MariaDB 5.5.31 as my Centmin Mod project switched from MariaDB 5.2.x default installs to MariaDB 5.5.x default installs. Testing vBulletin 4.2.1 with Centmin Mod v1.2.3 beta – Nginx 1.4.1, PHP 5.4.15 (php-fpm) with MariaDB 5.5.31.

Centmin Mod v1.2.3 beta – unattended mode & MariaDB 5.5 MySQL server

  New Centmin Mod v1.2.3-eva2000.01u beta is available now. This one has some more significant changes – including unattended mode for initial install, and yes finally MariaDB 5.5 MySQL server default support via YUM repo updates from official MariaDB repository ! You’ll find the new revised menu option #12 is for MariaDB 5.2.x update to MariaDB 5.5.x...

Open Litespeed: Tuning Server Settings Part 1

OpenLiteSpeed uses an GUI based Admin Console and under Server tab there are sub-tabs for Server, Tuning and External App sections. If you’re like me, you’ll eventually want to tweak and tune OpenLiteSpeed settings for better performance than what is available out of the box. Below, I’ll outline a few of the more commonly tweaked...

Open LiteSpeed: Quick install guides for WordPress, Joomla, Magento & Reverse Proxy setup

  LitespeedTech folks have updated open.litespeedtech.com web site with quick how to install guides for installing WordPress, Joomla and Magento along with guides for OpenLiteSpeed install, beginners tutorial and reverse proxy setup. Initial benchmarks of Open LiteSpeed vs Nginx are promising where it seems Open Litespeed retains the same performance as Litespeed Enterprise version. Quick...

OpenLiteSpeed: How to recompile PHP (LiteSpeed SAPI PHP)

  OpenLiteSpeed like it’s commercial brother, LiteSpeed has it’s own PHP handler, LiteSpeed SAPI PHP bundled into the web server. But it seems the default OpenLiteSpeed SAPI PHP isn’t optimally compiled. It’s missing MySQL support out of the box and points to a non-existent php.ini path directory at /tmp/lib. Luckily, it’s very easy to recompile OpenLiteSpeed SAPI...

Open LiteSpeed vs Nginx benchmarks and initial thoughts

  LitespeedTech took me by surprise when they announced an open source free version of Litespeed web server called OpenLiteSpeed. My first thought was, will OpenLiteSpeed retain the LiteSpeed Enterprise version’s performance and scalability in comparison to Nginx web server ? As I’m interested in performance of OpenLiteSpeed particularly in comparison to Nginx web server, I...

Litespeed web server goes open source, OpenLiteSpeed

  LitespeedTech folks have announced an open source free version of their Litespeed Enterprise web server called OpenLiteSpeed. Unfortunately, seems OpenLiteSpeed is missing a few features compared to their Litespeed Enterprise web server, including: hosting control panel compatibility .htaccess file compatibility (seems Apache rewrite syntax is supported just via OpenLiteSpeed Admin control panel for Virtual Hosts...