Linodes New SSD VPS performance test
Yes, I just upgraded my VPS from old plan to new platform. Actually my old VPS at Linode is SSD cached system. They called it SSD Beta. I used it from last September. I did a performance test at that...
Category: Web & Network
Linode upgrade hardware again in 2014
It is a huge upgrade for Linode server. 1) SSDs All SSD. Pure SSD, not hybrid. Server class SSD. 2) 40Gbps network 3) CPU New Ivy Bridge E5-2680.v2 full-power server-grade processors. 10 Cores, 20 threads, 2.8GHz, 25MB smart cache 4)...
Linode VPS connection issue
Today, my VPS at Linode has problem. It can not connected for 3 hours. Later, I got a email from Linode, which displayed that my VPS restarted. Newark Connectivity Issues Sunday, April 13, 2014 3:05AM EDT (UTC -4): Many Linodes are...
Universal Analytics: Out of beta
The day after April Fool, Google announced Universal Analytics is out of beta. I have already switch my tracking code from the original old code to Universal Analytics code. Nothing need be changed on my sites. The only benefit form...
Amazon AWS price reduction for EC2, S3, RDS, ElastiCache and Elastic MapReduce
It is a big news. Amazon announced, effective April 1, 2014, they are reducing prices for Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, he Amazon Relational Database Service, and Elastic MapReduce. The EC2 Price is reducing from 10% to 38% per your instance...
Adding two new Math worksheets
In my long term plan, I will add more and more math worksheet on Aliveworksheet.com. It is a website, which can make your own worksheet for your kids. The downloadable worksheet is pdf format. The worksheet with your kid’s name...
How to enable SSH server in DD-WRT router
The router is Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2, flashed with DD-WRT v24-sp2 build 21676. The SSH server settings is under Tab Services, Services. The section is called Secure Shell Select Enable for SSHd, keep the others as is. Then click Save and Apply...
How to add a schedule Cron job in DD-WRT router
It is the guide for Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2, powered by DD-WRT v24-sp2. Sign in router web UI. Go to Administration >> Management There is one section called Cron. Select Enable, then enter the scripts in the Cron Jobs box below. ...
How to Use Bing Webmaster tool to make a SEO Analysis
First Sign up Bing Webmaster Tool Now sign up and you will get US$50 credit for search advertising. Then, sign in, Add a new site, it will ask for the sitemap url of this site.
Top 10 Search Queries
The Top 10 Search Queries for past 12 months of this blog: shaw remote codes dns-323 firmware how to program shaw remote philips universal remote dns 323 firmware program shaw remote telus bundles vs shaw bundles ubuntu install perl modules...
Double my blog traffic in two weeks
I did a lot of research on Google, and try to find the way to double the web traffic of this blog. First post I read has 4 tips to double the traffic. 1) Mapping of meta tag Find top...
Webmin 1.680 Released
Webmin is a quite easy way to control VPS. It is a web panel. Version 1.680 (13th March 2014) More German translation updates thanks to Raymond Vetter, Catalan from Jaume Badiella and Norwegian updates from Stein-Aksel Basma. Fixed security issues...
CloudFront has Reports now
Amazon announced that CloudFront Usage Charts is available in Report and Analytics. We are excited to let you know that you can now view your Amazon CloudFront usage with CloudFront Usage Charts, six new charts in the AWS Management Console....
Go back to Amazon AWS CloudFront
I start to use CDN from April 2010, with MaxCDN. Later, I moved to Amazon, FrontCloud in August, 2010. For some reason, I move back to MaxCDN. I start to use MaxCDN again from June 2012. In April 2013, I...
7 Tips to Wi-Fi Performance Optimization
The seven must-know tips for your Wireless Wi-Fi network Performance Optimization. 1. Placements of Devices Radio signal travels through air to its destination. The radio signal will be reflected, refracted or absorbed if there is something on the way. So,...