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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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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)...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Preface. I wrote Diskeeper 10.0 on February 19, 2006 to recommand this product. Later on March, Richard Moskowitz, contacted me from Raxco Software, Inc. whose main product is PerfectDisk. He suggested me to review their PerfectDisk 7 to get more...