How to: Reset the Auto Increment value for a MySQL table
How to: Reset the Auto Increment value for a MySQL table Although this is something most people won’t need to do, there are some scenarios where you want to reset the ID value you...
Monthly Archive: December 2013
How to: Secure a site using Apache
How to: Secure a site using Apache If I had to, I would probably say that most people who use Apache do it to publish sites that are publicly accessible and/or have built-in security...
How to: Use the Terminal in Ubuntu
How to: Use the Terminal in Ubuntu obtained from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal: “Contributors to the Ubuntu documentation wiki” Lately I have been spending a lot of time using Ubuntu and as a Windows user I realized what...
Memcache vs Azure Cache
Memcache vs Azure Cache Memcache is a distributed, in-memory caching solution used to help speed up large scale web applications by taking pressure off the database. Memcache is used by many of the internet’s...
How to: Install Zend OpCache for php and WordPress
How to: Install Zend OpCache for php and WordPress OpCache is a mayor tool to increase the performance of your site. Every time a WordPress page is visited the system needs to compile the...
How to: Install Memcache for php and WordPress
How to: Install Memcache for php and WordPress In what seems the eternal quest of having a good performing hosting server one of the tools that are generally referred to is Memcache. What Memcache...
What is: “Wasted Memory”? (Zend OpCache & Memcached)
What is: “Wasted Memory”? (Zend OpCache & Memcached) As I have been trying to fine tune all the performance settings on our new Linux box there was a new term we came across: “Wasted...
How to Compare two files using NotePad++
How to Compare two files using NotePad++ Notepad++ (Notepad plus plus) is a great file editing tool. Think of it as a replacement of Window’s notepad but with lots and lots of features. You...
Which Web Server to use: Apache vs NGINX
Which Web Server to use: Apache vs NGINX If you are looking around there are a lot of people using NGINX over Apache nowadays. NGINX for what I have read provides a lot of...
How to: Send emails from WordPress in a Linux host
How to: Send emails from WordPress in a Linux host WordPress uses Php libraries in order to send emails. What this means is that if your php is not set up correctly it won’t...