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 like [...]

When I moved Aradius 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 up [...]

When we started Aradius 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 [...]

I sync Aradius 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 [...]