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Posts Tagged ‘apache’

WordPress 3.0 Upgrade

20 Jun

So as I’m sure a great many of you are all aware of, WordPress 3.0 has been released, fixing a number of new bugs, bringing some new features…and probably bringing new bugs (it’s to be expected, let’s be honest), though I’m sure that won’t get advertised!

As I upgraded, I decided to change my theme. I quite like the new theme, it makes a change to have a bit of colour on my blog, which I quite like, though I do still have the old theme kicking around on the server, should I decide to change my mind. Another change, is the VPS on which this blog is hosted, which is now hosted by Fivebean. So far, no real issues, the minor issue I initially had was dealt with promptly and explained thoroughly, I’d definitely recommend giving Fivebean a look if you’re in the market for a VPS :)

I do have one small issue currently, which I’m not sure whether it is being caused by WordPress, PHP, Apache, or the VPS setup on Fivebean’s part, whereby directly after a reboot the RAM usage sits at around 300MB, and refreshing the WP dashboard causes usage to jump upwards by around 200MB. Now I know WordPress likes its RAM, but not that much, it certainly wasn’t an issue on the old VPS. Anyway – more news on that as it comes.

 
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Moving Home?

03 Mar

I’m thinking of moving this blog over to joeb454.com

As some of you know, I recently bought a MacBook, and I realised I didn’t have a page up on my .com domain, so I decided to kill 2 birds with 1 stone, and had a play with iWeb ’09. The end result isn’t bad, and moving the blog over to my VPS provider would mean 2 things:

1) I’d actually be using my VPS for something
2) I’d have a more fine grained control over my blog, because I would be hosting it myself. Currently this blog is hosted by wordpress.com

It could mean I’d need to upgrade my VPS package, because currently I only have 384 MB RAM on there. I guess it all depends on how much MySQL decides that it wants to take, though before upgrading I’d look into tweaking some MySQL settings to see if I can reduce the amount it needs.

Ultimately I’d like to do this just because of number 1 above. But also it would teach me some more about Apache, MySQL, possibly PHP. I may also look into changing the site at some point, possibly to a Drupal installation, but we’ll have to wait and see :)

Any thought’s on whether you think this would be a worthwhile move, or any recommendations you have on tweaking various settings on the server (it runs Ubuntu 8.04) would be fantastic!

 
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Posted in Apple, Internet, Ubuntu

 

SVN

16 Feb

First off – I’d just like to point out that now Planet Ubuntu should be getting all blog posts from here :)

Secondly, I’ve set up a local SVN repository (without apache access). This is mainly just for my coding, which I seem to be doing a lot of at the minute, so I figured in my downtime from that, I’d set up SVN.

It was pretty easy, and I have Netbeans (we have to use it at Uni, I’ve grown to like it though, it’s pretty good) set up to commit to the svn repo’s for the various projects etc. Which was also incredibly easy to set up. I’m pleased I did it, whether it will be used remains to be seen. Either way, I think I better get back to coding this interface! So far I’m doing ok (though I’ve not got more than 1 class so far either…)

 
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Posted in Programming