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Text editor for programmers notepad++

by Ruchira on December 5, 2010

Editing simple HTML or PHP script with notepad is not actually very good practice because editing large code pages such as big CSS table is very hard with notepad even with “Word wrap” . And if you are on Windoze making linux bash scripts on notepad is terrible because it doesn’t saves unix bash script […]

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Simple PHP Web uptime script

by Ruchira on December 5, 2010

Having 100s days of server uptime with your shiny linux box? Wanna showoff like I want to do? 😛 Or want to monitor server uptime without SSHing to server? There is nice way to showoff your uptime in simple PHP script which requires nothing fancy changes on your linux box. Ill will display system time […]

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My Favourite Whois checker tool

by Ruchira on October 22, 2010

Ok This might be not new thing to you. There are many whois checkers on internet to check the identity information and registration information of domain names. Most of them only provides domain registrant info and registration time period. Other few provides some other information such as server information that the domain hosted etc. But […]

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Get Amazon EC2 instance free with ubuntu 10

by Ruchira on October 19, 2010

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat was released few days ago and yes I have upgraded my Lucid Lynx to Meerkat 2 days ago so now this blog runs on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick meerkat and I have dropped centos on all of my servers because ubuntu is great and stable. So the news is now Ubuntu team […]

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Integrating memcached to wordpress

by Ruchira on October 4, 2010

If you have busy site which gets thousands of visitors a day you might be having a hard time managing your server load. If you are using apache it makes it harder. The best decision is moving to nginx or lighttpd. If Im the one who manage the server Ill choose Nginx because its little […]

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Using Amazon S3 with wordpress

by Ruchira on October 3, 2010

Now Im running Ubuntu+Nginx+PHP-FPM+Memcached on this blog. And pingdom says my website loads about in 4 seconds and I want to drive it further! I know this kind of page load time really blows many CDN enabled sites. But I wanted to try out and then I have faced problems here is info- https://www.ruchirablog.com/about-downtime/ Hmm […]

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Free website stress test tool

by Ruchira on October 3, 2010

Are you a webmaster? Have you heard about Loadimpact? Its free load test tool for your web site and generates virtual simulated users to access your site and see how your server performs under heavy load! Is this serious? Oh yeah! Take a look at my cpu usage and traffic graphs generated while I load […]

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Update- I have modified this script to use nginx latest version and the whole guide for complete web site including DNS setup can be found on here Nginx is become just easy for newbies. thanks for the Chinese developer Licess installing nginx+PHP-FPM+Eaccelarator+Mysql+Pureftpd is easy as 1 2 3. The developers site is www.lnmp.org its really […]

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