Recent content by Liam D.

O_o sorry for that. It did have suhosin on PHP 5.3 (I know that for a fact since it was the very reason why I chose CentOS) but I wasn't sure for 5.4. Thanks for pointing that out! I must say that I have this new-found love for Debian after playing around with it. I'm planning to convert all my...

It still supports Apache rewrites via the Admin page (that's what I've heard, not sure), just not through .htaccess. I do the same for rewrites with NginX (having to manually open up configs) so I guess there wouldn't be a difference between the ease of use between the two. As for performance...

I just heard of this today from TAZ. This really sounds promising, and I might try it out within the week, although I wonder which features were removed. EDIT

For shared hosting, MDD Hosting gets good reviews.

Yes, it is unnoticeable. But for system upgrades and times where you need to download big files to your server, it would make a lot more sense to use something that has the capability to burst into something faster.

Yeah, I know. But still. It's worth paying for something that has the capability to burst to something faster if the prices are almost the same with something that can't.

If you really want the blazing-fast experience, go with a host that provides SSD storage instead of the normal HDD ones. You'll get faster I/O. And depending on your audience, choose a host that is near to what you cater to. For example, if you cater to an audience in the UK, go with a UK host...

Not sure about NginX, but that's how Apache works in my knowledge.

If you do, you can't put memcached in config.php anymore (or at least that's what I know, correct me if I'm wrong). APC works "kinda automatic" anyway, other webmasters do it.

APC (but don't put it in config.php) + memcached.

Well, if you're worried about DNS propagation, use an external DNS service like Cloudflare or HE.net's DNS service and edit your IP address settings from there. If you're really paranoid about it, configure the old server to point to the new server's IP.

It loads perfectly fine on my end. Your my.cnf also looks good to me. (You use InnoDB instead of MyISAM, right?)

Well, your host is right on this one. Considering that the nameservers are indeed "redundant", when it gets attacked and "fails", it gets back up by itself without service interruptions. Yes, that is a VPS company. I've had a VPS with a host before that does the same practice, and I used their...

"...using the exact same IP address..." - Are you sure you're using a VPS? If this is a normal shared hosting account then its normal, but a VPS with an IP address used by other users? You used the nameservers of your host to point to your VPS? Well, the IP addresses you seem to look up would...

Try "parking" your domain to point to one server. Sorry, it's been a while since I've worked on big sites, so can't really help here. About the "s", that depends. I don't think it really matters for most people.