Category Archives: Site News

Server Benchmarking Diary – Debian, Apache 2 and MySQL

September 5, 2008 – 20:32

This blog took nearly 7 thousand hits yesterday. At its peak, it took 1.8 thousand an hour. That’s a decent amount of traffic. This was all brought about when I submitted a link to reddit.com regarding a way to crash Google Chrome instantly. Coincidentally, I had spent an hour or so the night before testing [...]

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New Horizons…

August 21, 2007 – 06:25

I’ve been very busy these last few weeks. The majority of my time has been migrating this site to a new server, provided by slicehost.com (more on them later). My old host had reached its limits, both in its physical-capabilities and my patience with it. In this post i’m going to discuss the migration from [...]

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‘The Perils of MySQL’ – Update

April 2, 2007 – 12:30

If you search for Placid via Google, you’ll see that this site is now result 9 or 10 if you’re searching via their .com or .co.uk domains – my recent pledge to get my site noticed by Google and various other search engines is finally working out, and in all honesty it wasn’t that hard! [...]

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