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Posted on March 11, 2014March 10, 2014 Web & Network

7 Tips to Wi-Fi Performance Optimization

The seven must-know tips for your Wireless Wi-Fi network Performance Optimization. 1. Placements of Devices Radio signal travels through air to its destination. The radio signal will be reflected, refracted or absorbed if there is something on the way. So,...

Posted on February 27, 2014March 1, 2014 Web & Network WordPress Notes

How to make your blog faster than 95% of all websites

My blog is rebuild a few days ago. I did a web site speed test through Pingdom. My home page is so fast. The result looks so good. Your website is faster than 95% of all tested websites Even the...

Posted on November 12, 2013April 20, 2018 L.A.M.P.

How to Disable ETags in Apache httpd.conf

What are ETags? ETag is a standard used for determining whether the client (web browser) already has the latest version. If it has, it’s simply loaded from local cache. If not, the new version is requested. An ETag is a...

Posted on September 23, 2013November 21, 2018 Web & Network

4GB OpenVZ VPS

Ordered a new VPS from ServerMania. I did a test two days ago through ServerBear. The basic information about this VPS. RAM 4 GB Burstable 8GB HDD 150 GB CPU Model Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 V2 @ 3.50GHz CPU Cores...

Posted on September 1, 2013February 23, 2014 L.A.M.P.

PHP 5.5 is 20% faster than PHP5.3

It is a general test on a Centos 6.4 system. The benchmark script is made by http://www.php-benchmark-script.com/. The first time I run it on the updated default Centos6.4. The php version is 5.3.3. I think it has Xcache installed. The...

Posted on June 5, 2013March 16, 2019 Web & Network

New Google Maps has poor performance

I tried new Google Maps on desktop. It has poor performance right now. Geo location is wrong. When I use old Google Maps, it shows me Burnaby, BC, Canada as my location. But when new Google Maps gave me Chillwack,...

Posted on March 7, 2013February 23, 2014 Hardware

Replace SSD on Acer Aspire One ZG5

Acer Aspire One ZG5 has 8GB SSD. This SSD has poor performance as indicated on Wiki. Intel Z-P230, model SSDPAMM0008G1. This SSD has been criticized for its slow read and write speed. Intel lists the drive’s maximum speeds as 38...

Posted on January 10, 2013February 23, 2014 Hardware

Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB WD10EZEX

In this new year season, I bought a set of desktop hardware and built a new PC. Here is the hard drive. Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB, SATA 3 (6GB/s), 7200RPM, 64MB Cache, 3.5in. It is designed for desktop, called...

Posted on October 30, 2012February 23, 2014 L.A.M.P.

Performance improved by XCache 2.0.0

XCache is a open-source opcode cacher, which means that it accelerates the performance of PHP on servers. It optimizes performance by removing the compilation time of PHP scripts by caching the compiled state of PHP scripts into the shm (RAM)...

Posted on May 29, 2012April 20, 2018 Hardware

Add memory to make my PC faster

My desktop is a DIY pc which I built in 2008. The only one part changed is motherboard. I use ASUS P5Q se until now. The OS on it is Windows 7 ultimate 32bit. Because I use 2GB memory only,...

Posted on December 20, 2010November 19, 2018 Web & Network

Zend Optimizer and Xcache make phpBB 3 faster

I moved one phpBB forum to a VPS. All fresh. I have Apache installed and MySQL. phpBB 3 relay on them. Because of the size of forum, about 500K posts, 1000 users, the forum is not as fast as I...

Posted on August 11, 2010February 20, 2014 Web & Network

WebPageTest has new UI

I do like to mod my Blog time by time. And also check the performance of website often. Now, I find UI of one of the best testing sites is changed. It is WebPageTest. The new look is clear and...

Posted on April 5, 2010February 20, 2014 Notes of MovableType

Use MaxCDN to make your blog faster

If you come my Blog often, you may fell the site is loaded faster than before. Yes. You are right. I implement CDN to improve my blog performance. A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system...

Posted on March 2, 2010March 19, 2019 Web & Network

VPS Performance test result

I have a VPS which has 600MB memory. Let me do the bench test. Result shown as below. BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.2) System — Linux serv.fromchinatousa.net 2.6.9-023stab046.2-smp #1 SMP Mon Dec 10 16:48:24 MSK 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux...

Posted on July 22, 2009April 20, 2018 DreamHost Log L.A.M.P.

How to increase Yslow score from C to B at Dreamhost

I have a small site hosted on Dreamhost. Yslow Score with default setting is C, or 77. Later I do the following optimization to increase it to B, or 89. Based on Yslow v2 test. The key is to change...

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