Earlier this week (on the 9th), Apple held a press event called “Lets rock” announcing several new things related to iTunes, iPod, and iPhone. As usual, SlashGear is covering the event live and I want to share some stats. Unlike the past, we did not hit 447k users during the livecast, that was our record. [...]

I’m a guy who will throw in more hardware to keep up with server load and traffic demand, but from time to time, being able to squeeze every little bit of performance worth the hassle of mingling into applications and server configuration. WordPress is quite MySQL resources intensive when you are not using file-based cache [...]

When I moved R3 Network to SoftLayer, we received 2000GB bandwidth allocation each server. We don’t use much of our public bandwidth on MySQL server as we connect to it using internal private IP, however I can’t say the same for our web server. Based on last month usage (May), our web server has used [...]

When we started R3 Media Network almost three years ago, Reggie, a buddy of mine laughed at me for having two backups of our sites on different places and labeled me a super paranoid geek. Recent fire on The Planet H1 datacenter was a wake up call for him as he was affected by the [...]

I sync R3 sites data as backups to several servers and services around the world; on top of that I regularly use rsync to mirror those data to my local NAS to keep as a local backup. While doing this entire backup thing for the sites, I’ve realized that I never backup any of my [...]

For the past couple days, I’ve been trying to figure out how I can keep our flagship sites up during sudden spikes of incoming traffic. We have moved to LiteSpeed Web Server two months ago and it does help; however the bottleneck is back to MySQL. So recently I enabled slow-queries log on MySQL server [...]

I don’t usually preach on how great a piece of product is on my personal blog, but this one is special. SlashGear is proudly running WordPress and backed by Dual Xeon 3.0 and 4GB ram with 74GB Raid SCSI machine. We were running Apache 2.0 with MySQL 4.1 on it and when we got digg [...]

One of my server went into hiatus and we even restored it from scratch by installing RHEL 4 all over again and reconfigure, but for some reason Apache would crashed every 30 seconds. Error log shows nothing unusual and i cant figure out why as memory and etc seems to be on normal usage. So [...]