Archive for April, 2008

Maybe It’s OK That Wordpress Kill Your CPU

Jeff Atwood writes about WordPress performance. Quite astonishing - it appears to be that if your blog is medium sized (or bigger) you must install WP-Cache in order it will survive traffic peaks and doesn’t kill your server.
When I read it, my first though was: “too bad they though that fancy control panel is more […]

The Benefits of Using Amazon EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as “EC2″, allows scalable deployment of applications.[1] Current users are able to create, launch and terminate server instances on demand, hence the term “elastic”.(Wikipedia)
I believe that the Amazon Web Services (and especially EC2) are one of the most influencing technologies that shape the future of the web. While for […]

Google Apps Engine isn’t Amazon Web Services

For those of you who don’t know who Guido is, he’s the creator of Python and now works for Google. Recently he moved to the Google Apps Engine team. If you want a quick introduction to Google Apps Engine, just read this blog post and then watch the following two videos: (the first one shows […]