Month: August 2010

Dreamhost bundled several applications which you can install with their one click install module. The following applications are available: WordPress Drupal Phpbb Gallery MediaWiki ZenCart OpenX DotProject Joomla Advanced Poll Gallery PhpGedView Pigg Moodle WebCalendar You can access the installed applications at: http://blog.dreamhostcolumn.com http://drupal.dreamhostcolumn.com http://forum.dreamhostcolumn.com http://photos.dreamhostcolumn.com http://wiki.dreamhostcolumn.com http://dreamhostcolumn.com/zencart http://dreamhostcolumn.com/openx http://dreamhostcolumn.com/dotproject http://dreamhostcolumn.com/joomla http://dreamhostcolumn.com/pigg http://dreamhostcolumn.com/calendar Installation is … Read moreDreamhost Applications and Scripts Tests

These resources are an excellent guide for you to optimize your LAMP environment for doing web hosting. Here are three links on optimizing Apache, MySQL and PHP: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tune-lamp-1/index.html http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tune-lamp-2.html http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tune-lamp-3.html http://phpimpact.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/optimizing-apache-and-php Apache’s Config file (httpd.conf) RLimitMEM 128000000 RLimitCPU 30 StartServers       50 MinSpareServers   15 MaxSpareServers   30 MaxClients       225 MaxRequestsPerChild  4000 KeepAlive 5 KeepAliveTimeout 2 php.ini settings … Read moreOptimizing Apache, Php, and MySql (LAMP)

Here you will see an actual speed test from a live JustHost account which we purchased. Click on the Start button below and it will begin the tests. Please be patient while the application is testing both the upload and download speed between your computer and the JustHost server. It may take a while when … Read moreJustHost Speed Test From Live JustHost Account

If speed is a deciding factor for you to choose your web host, then this post will help you a lot. For example, if you are hosting a video extensive website or software/music download site, then speed is critical for you to decide which web host you want to go with. Below you will see … Read moreMass Web Hosting Side by Side Speed Comparison Test

On this post, I will show you what I personally do when setting up a new WHM/cPanel server for production. Some of the remarks/steps is for my personal reference only, you may disregard them if I put a star (*). I placed a check box on each point so you can check it when you’re … Read morePreparing cPanel Server for Production

Posted here is the limit of the customer service and support which IXWebHosting covers. I asked these questions to IXWebHosting support through their help desk system as their existing client. Please read these answers so that you would know what to expect as far as customer service and support goes. Enjoy! I would like to … Read moreIXWebHosting Customer Service / Support Limit

1. How many domain names do you host on my existing server? 2. At any point in time, can I request you to restore my account to a previous available set of backup. If so, is there any additional fees to it? Otherwise I may consider getting an off-site backup somewhere. 3. Do you support … Read more1and1 (1&1) Server Configuration and Limit

Every web host as a limit of doing stuff for you. If you’re a reasonable enough client you won’t have any problem with any of the web host I review here. Below are the customer service and support limitation I got from HostMonster by asking their support team as an existing HostMonster client. I hope … Read moreHostMonster Customer Service / Support Limit

Here you go… use it at your own risk, but my cPanel servers run smoothly under this my.cnf config file: # Example MySQL config file for large systems. # # This is for a large system with memory = 512M where the system runs mainly # MySQL. # # You can copy this file to … Read moreStable MySql configuration for cPanel server with around 500 accounts

Okay, when you are running a server for a shared hosting environment, you don’t want a particular service to overload your CPU and make the whole thing crash. What I found in regards to MySql, we can lower down the “priority” of the CPU resource consumption by MySql by setting the niceness level of MySql. … Read moreLowering or Limiting MySql CPU Resource Usage