Please look at the currently available plans for Dedicated Server and VPS servers. The plans mentioned below are now deprecated. These are discounted prices for customers signing up before October 15th 2009. Customers who choose the current plans will always have the same ( or lower ) pricing available to them for their provisioned and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘performance’
Improving linux IO performance
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. i cannot over-emphasise how much [...]
Linux: In memory filesystems tmpfs vs ramdisk
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 [...]