So I tried to use suphp on my servers the last week or so. I had even fully converted my main server to it. But I noticed average resource usage was way higher, sites loaded a lil bit slower, and at times when the server was busy it would just lag. The load would get [...]

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Im pretty much always trying to find ways for my servers to run as fast as possible while still keeping a light load. On one site I host they was using tons of mysql resources so I found this php script that optimizes all mysql dbs. So I set it to a 2 hour cron, [...]

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Last night I compiled and installed the 2.6.22.1 kernel with grsecurity test patch only to see an hour later a new version had been released so i got on that. Booted it up in 2 machines, works great.
It is configured for a core2duo system with sata hard drives but most people should be able to [...]

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