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Maxmind GeoIP City now available for free!

For those of you who like Awstats, Maxmind’s GeoIP City database is now available for free as GeoLite City. Geolite Country has been available for free as an alternative to the GeoIP::Free module that Awstats uses by default in Cpanel. Since the latest EDGE updates, the GeoIP::Free module has been throwing errors.
Use of uninitialized value [...]

Help speed test the new server!

Speedtest my new server in Los Angeles http://moo.cyborgcow.net/speedtest
Compare with my old server in Texas http://new.cyborgcow.net/speedtest

Been working on tons of updates. I’ll begin moving sites tomorrow most likely.

Server performance upgrades… Horay!

In the last day I set up a second MySQL installation with its own innodb RAM buffers for Firestats, and that alone increased the performance of the gallery tremendously. With the Firestats database reaching 300MB (compressed), it was eating up valuable RAM that the Gallery uses for its 1.5GB database. Thanks to V-nessa.net I was [...]

Installed Lighttpd for super fast uses!

I adopted a cute lil’ cow fetus
from Fetusmart! Hooray fetus!
Wow! Its just amazing how little memory Lighttpd uses to serve out thousands of tiny .gif files. Apache would generate a memory intensive process for every request. I’ll be able to find creative uses for this in the future.
I’ve updated us to the SVN Gallery [...]

Freesound proxy with Squid

I wanted to help out the great site, The Free Sound Project, so I set up Squid proxy on our server. It is pretty amazing that we are now serving out twice as many bits of traffic, yet it has a negligible effect on our server load and other resources!
From their site:
The Freesound Project is [...]

Server Upgrade coming soon!

I am going to be migrating all of us to a new Dual Xeon server within a week. Hardcoredreamer.com will be the first site to be moved, so I can make sure if anything is affected that it will be my site and nobody else’s. I’m hosting 153 domains right now, and take pride in [...]

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