Posts under ‘performance’

Is your website target audience in India ? If 70% or more of your web traffic is from India this for you.
Why should it matter ?
If your site is hosted in US have you noticed the long delay before your webpages start appearing on the browser. While some of the other big media sites are [...]

Since the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web (www) in the last century, till today there have been trillions and trillions of Internet page requests made across the world. However, webmasters feel all the more curious to know how actually a webpage request is being served on their user’s computer and to [...]

1. Mount options: use noatime
Most Linux server machines can do without last access time modified for every file and each directory which is being read. So I’ll just go ahead and re-quote for the nth time what Linux Kernel developer Ingor Molar has to say to emphasize the point.
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i cannot over-emphasise how much of a [...]

Although reading and writing to files is fast in Linux with aggressive readahead and caching, it can still slow down applications that make extensive use of ondisk temporary files. As an example MySQL which can do a lot of on disk temporary tables if the temporary tables need to have a large varchar, text or [...]