IIS 7.5 Performance Tuning

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Mar 172012
 

I’ve been investigating the speed of page loads for PHP/ MySQL dynamic sites running on WS08 R2. This can seem sluggish out-the-box when compared to the likes of an Ubuntu Server running Apache/ PHP/ MySQL, running on similar hardware.

There are a number of performance increases which can be gained with some simple tuning techniques and Add-ons for PHP. There is also tweaks which can be done for MySQL to cache queries and use more resources when available.

The work I’ve been doing is showing pages are loading 50% quicker now on the dynamic sites such as WordPress and phpBB3. The CPU usage has gone down and memory isn’t laying dormant and unused.

I would say it’s now more efficient than an equivalent Linux based host and still has all the benefits of Windows such as ease of administration, monitoring and security.

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Hyper-V

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Mar 162012
 

We’ve been doing a lot of work with Hyper-V lately and it’s very impressive. I had a look at it a while back and it didn’t seem to be a match for vmware. Both products have their benefits, however the High Availability features on Hyper-V seem to work brilliantly. We’ve setup a lab with Replicated SANs, Windows Clustering and Hyper-V. We took down a host and datastore and systems became available as they where on our failover SAN and host. This can be achieved with vmware but the licensing and costs are more complicated.

There are some great products we are using right now which can greatly save on the costs of a High Availability SAN and Hosts over a traditional Virtualised environment.

If this is something which interests you, check out http://www.custardcomputers.com

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2012 – The Year of Change

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Feb 112012
 

I haven’t blogged for a while because I haven’t found the time. Things are getting busy in my life, all for good reason.

Firstly, the Wedding is fast approaching. We get married in August this year, I can’t wait – most things are organised. It appears the simplest of things take the most organisation, things like where to seat people and the logistics of my DJ gear getting there and Back (I’m not DJing obviously)

Secondly, I’ve been promoted at work and so I’ve taken on a lot more responsibility. It’s what I’ve been after though as I couldn’t progress further in the role I was in. This new role has slingshot me into growing up a bit and thinking more logically. Although my brain is still mental as that can’t change over night, however it’s slowly being rewired to think ‘a bit more normal’

Thirdly, we’ve finally stopped procrastinating about buying our house and we are now waiting for a mortgage offer (yay or nay) I have big plans for the Garage and house, but these will have to wait until next year due to all three above factors.

If I could find time to do anything else then one or more of the above wouldn’t be being done right :)

…Damn, I could of put up a shed or sent an important email or arranged some wedding disco logistics in the time it took me to write all this!

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New Year

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Jan 032012
 

It’s now 2012 and has been for a few days.

Christmas has been brilliant, i’ve been playing with my Apple TV lots and generally taking time to be a geek with my own gadgets.

New Years eve was fantastic, we spent it in Newquay with a couple of good friends.

See Below for our cool outfits!

 Posted by Rob at 9:20 pm

It’s Nearly Christmas

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Dec 142011
 

“If you’ve got nothing good to say then say nothing at all” Well I’ve thought of something, so I’ll say it.

This year has flown by.

For example, it’s almost 2 weeks since we went to London and it feels like yesterday. I can’t believe it’s 1 year since we were dancing to Black Eyed Peas – The Time/ Dirty Bit, for the last works do. This weekend it’s the Custard Christmas Do and we are getting some VIP treatment at NEC.

It’s about time I reflect back on the year and see what gadgets I’ve had (and usually blogged about)

Just read back through my Blog and you’ll see the erratic gadget peaks and troughs for me over the past few years. Things are back on track now though and I feel much less ridiculous as I’m no longer pulling an Acer Laptop out of my Laptop bag and a Non-iPhone out of my Pocket. And now i’m writing notes on and iPad 2 and not a piece of paper. (As an IT Professional, it’s equivalent to my ‘mate-in-the-trade’ using a Manual Hand Drill, Christmas Cracker Screw Drivers and a hacksaw from the Pound Shop) as he pointed out.

I’ve noticed I’ve failed to blog about the fact I now have a MacBook Pro 13″ 2.8GHz i7 with 128GB SSD. An optical bay drive converter is on it’s way. This will allow me to fit a 2nd Hard Drive so I can drop all of my Music Samples for Ableton and Virtual Machines for Work on it. Bye-Bye Battery Life!

On a side note… The other week I bought a 4x Pack of Crabbies Alcoholic Ginger Beer and they where the 500ml(ish) real ale size bottles for £5.50. Yesterday I was in Tesco and I bought these 4 for £5.50, as it was 50p cheaper than buying them as 4 500ml singles. I got them home and found they had been downsized to little 330ml bottles which were supped up in 1 ginger fuelled sneeze.

I could of bought 4x Ginger Joes for the same price!! Now there are TV adverts for the stuff, it would be unfortunate if you where Ginger and called Joe.

Digression Adjourned

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Lego Christmas Tree at St. Pancras

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Nov 272011
 

There is a Christmas tree at St Pancras station in London, which is so tall it breaches the upper floor.

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