PHP

How To Configure a Linux Web Server

by Mike Mansell March 4, 2011
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In the past, I have discussed the need to have strong and reliable web hosting, and even went on to suggest things to look at when shopping for a provider.  For larger websites – or for people own a number off websites – shared hosting (while incredibly affordable and simple to configure) isn’t always a [...]

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Facebook Introduces HipHop for PHP

by Michael Morris February 2, 2010
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Facebook is a very large and complex content driven website. Like many other large websites, resource management is key to Facebook. Not only does it keep down CPU load and memory usage on their vast array of servers, but it is also used to ensure a fast load for every user that browses the website. [...]

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Stop WP-Cache From Caching Your Index

by Jeff Weisbein May 19, 2008
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I recently ran across the issue after re-enabling WP-Cache on my blog of having my index.php being cached. This was an issue for me because I have my Twitter feed update on my front page and I wanted that to be current when I posted a new tweet. The solution to my problem was relatively [...]

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