From the monthly archives: September 2011

Server load problems. Varnish vs Nginx vs Apache vs PHP DSO vs FCGI vs suPHP vs APC vs eAccelerator vs memcached

By On September 19, 2011 · 3 Comments

After noticing one of my servers was down i needed a solution to the server load problems i was having.

My sites on the server usually handle the loads that are on them but i was getting a huge spike in traffic that was causing the server to start swapping in and out of the [...]

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messing around with preg_replace….

By On September 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I am probably trying to reinvent the wheel here but…..

I wanted to get the top 20 or so tags from a wordpress blog and to use the tags for a loop of 3 posts from each tag.

The only function i could find to get the most used tags was wp_tag_cloud

by taking it [...]

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