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Dec 16 2008

Speedy ride on a VPS with Lighttpd

Published by Jiwei under Internet, Software

Apache is not adequate in restricted environment
As I said earlier, on a HostIcan VPS, my applications were running unbearably slow and erratically. I was determined to get it right even with the hard RAM limitation. BTW, I found VPSLink offers the most affordable package and reliable servers, use the referral code CSR42P to get a [...]

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Dec 16 2008

Choose the right VPS to host your busy websites

Published by Jiwei under Internet, Software

I have a few busy websites running Wordpress, phpBB, phpList, eTicket, Magento and other PHP/MySQL based scripts. I get close to 1M hits a month with a peak observed at 9 hits/second.  A shared hosting won’t work for me anymore.  A dedicated server is too expensive and perhaps an over-kill. So I set off to [...]

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Nov 25 2007

How to run WordPress over ADSL or Cable modem effectively

Published by Jiwei under Software

There are basically three ways to publish your blog with WordPress.

Open an account on a blog service such as http://wordpress.com/. This is the easiest to set up.  But you cannot always customize to your heart’s content and you don’t earn from AdSense.
Run WordPress on your own server at home.  You really emerge yourself in the [...]

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Nov 16 2007

WordPress backup and restore

Published by Jiwei under Software

The first thing you have to consider after installing WordPress and starting writing is to backup and restore your database.  I started with WordPress Database Backup 2.1.5, which was rated highly on WordPress.org.  It turned out to cause me tremendous grief when migrating to a different server. The primary issue is that some tables are not [...]

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Nov 14 2007

Android award idea

Published by Jiwei under Mobile, Mobile device, Software

Google announced the availability of Android platform SDK this week. However devices running Android will only come after mid of 2008. Like the saying in an old joke, reading the software manual without the hardware is like reading a porn book without the software.  It’s hard to hold the urge.
Meanwhile, Google also set up $10 million in prizes for developers [...]

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