Comments on: Club Troppo crippled but moving soon

By: Alec

Alec — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:51:10 +0000

That’s funny. I followed your very good suggestions about running Wordpress efficiently over here:

1. MySQL query and key caching will save you a lot of time. Most times a page is displayed and nothing has changed.

2. PHP opcode caching. There are several. I use xcache.

3. Selectable object cache. It’s a little known fact that Wordpress does some half-arsed internal caches of intermediate objects; an even less-known fact that you can get it to use PHP opcode caches or memcached to hold those intermediate objects. This combination can really zip up the PHP side of things.

4. Reduce the number of plugins running if you can.

5. Don’t put your blogroll, archives or author listings on the front page. Move them onto a separate page. Each of those listings performs a nasty old bunch of queries. Not single queries that reduce to a single result set; oh no, dozens of queries.

And you’re right again. Dreamhost should rename themselves Nightmarehost.

Disabling accounts, servers down, broken emails, overbilling. You name it, they’ve done it in the past year. We still use them for testing but that will soon be at an end too.

By: Tim Dunlop

Tim Dunlop — Tue, 01 May 2007 07:47:47 +0000

Ken, having had similar problems with DreamHost I commiserate. They really are the pits. Hope it all works out. I notice you have other plans, but if you happen to still be looking for a host, happy to put you touch with mine, which is sort of a subhosting set-up that is working out well. Drop me a line if it’s of interest.

By: Club Troppo » Missing Link (somewhat belated)

Club Troppo » Missing Link (somewhat belated) — Tue, 01 May 2007 04:36:45 +0000

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By: Ken Parish

Ken Parish — Tue, 01 May 2007 01:36:46 +0000

I’m on deck but no time to write or co-ordinate this edition of Missing Link. I gather that Helen Dale is co-ordinating/editing this edition, and has postponed publication until today for a number of reasons. I imagine it will appear later today.

Like Nicholas, I don’t see any reason why the problems with Dreamhost should prevent Missing Link being published. They disabled comments not publication of primary posts, and the email plugin that sends out Missing Link to subscribers is unrelated to the comments facility/database AFAIK.

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Tue, 01 May 2007 01:31:53 +0000

I can’t see any reason ML should be affected.

By: Gummo Trotsky

Gummo Trotsky — Tue, 01 May 2007 00:51:30 +0000

Serves you Troppodillians right for being among the 85% of Dreamhost customers who return only 15% of their revenue!

And, while we wait with bated breath to see how long it will be after stoushing resumes in the comments at Troppo before the Dreamhost guys toss the other clog into the works, one question hangs over our heads - what’s to become of Missing Link?

Forget I asked that - with a web-host of such pre-eminent silliness to deal with, it’s really only a minor matter.

By: Francis X Holden

Francis X Holden — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:55:41 +0000

…tired, jetlagged and hungover.

c’mon.that’s the australian way on a monday. and judging from most websites the way most webmonkeys operate.