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Some major changes have taken place behind the scenes here at DrewVogel.COM. We’ve migrated the system from PHP-Nuke to PostNuke. There might be some small problems here and there, but for the most part, the system is running really well. If you spot anything strange,…
The system was down much of today for a MAJOR upgrade. I’ve transferred the server to a bigger, faster box and installed Linux Mandrake 8.1 PowerPack and more than doubled the system’s storage. It didn’t go without hitches, but it’s back up and running! As…
This evening, I installed PHP Accelerator 1.2p3 to the system which results in MUCH faster page serving from this site. Some results of testing the front page are below.
This evening, the system was offline for about 65 minutes while I verified a comprehensive backup (using Mondo/Mindi, an excellent backup utility) that I’d made of the system. Fortunately, this is a ‘baseline’ backup, so any future downtime will not be so long, since I…
Today, I upgraded the PHP-Accelerator to version 1.2p4. This new version features more security, better crash detection & recovery, and some bug fixes. DrewVogel.COM can now serve approximately 100.33 pages per minute, 6,019.83 pages per hour, 144,475.82 pages per day, and 4,334,274.51 pages per month!
Today, I updated one & added several features to the site. The upgrades are all part of the "i-Releases" series, and are available from http://www.portalzine.de. The "Who Is Online" block, to the left, was updated from version 2.2 to version 2.5. I added several other…
This program sits on my Windows desktop and provides a GUI in which I can easily add, manipulate, and edit articles that exist on this site.