http://trentdv.com what server says goes Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:03:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en September and October were both pretty great months.   We did some re-arranging of our service systems and opted to change our backup system to Amazon Web Services for all our content as well as our database backups.   This was something that we thought would be more beneficial than ... http://trentdv.com/2008/11/02/fall-2008-review/ We held back on the review of July and decided that a review for both July and August would be more appropriate.    We did quite a few things over the summer and traffic is getting larger on a monthly basis both in terms of pageviews, hits and unique visitors.     Here ... http://trentdv.com/2008/09/01/summer-review-2008/ My father is always telling me that "simple" is the best way to do anything.   Over complicating can be an OK thing if it pays or is worth it, but simple is always the way.   That is pretty much how I can sum up June 2008 in saying that we ... http://trentdv.com/2008/07/02/june-2008-review/ We have made a few changes to the service and will directly improve the performance of the service and the space required for the upcoming improvements in our social networking.    With the insight from some great people we have now setup our backup service well beyond what we originally planned ... http://trentdv.com/2008/06/15/expansion-of-service/ We will be going down pretty soon here to add an additional harddrive to the server, so please closeup anything you have working and follow this thread for more information on when this upgrade is completed. Thanks for your patience. Trent Adams http://trentdv.com/2008/06/06/hardware-upgrade/ May was one of those months where things changed more than I really thought they would change.     The traffic was larger than the month of April and we had close to 400,000 hits from 75,000 unique visitors to our service.    We added some functionality and will have some big changes ... http://trentdv.com/2008/06/04/may-2008-review/ We are doing some testing of running xCache and eAccelerator on the server to help boost the performance of all php applications on the server.   The obvious choice of this optimization is WPMU since that is the only application run on this server ;) First, we tested out eAccelerator and it ... http://trentdv.com/2008/05/22/xcache-and-eaccelerator/ April was much like March in terms of the traffic and resources required.   We had just a shy less than 60,000 unique visitors serving up close to 200,000 page views with well over 300,000 hits in the month of April.     Since Onvertigo Bloggers is still in beta (only 20 blogs) ... http://trentdv.com/2008/05/02/april-2008-review/ We are happy to use Media Temple as our main server as it gives the easy ability to upgrade and downgrade resources as they are needed.   With the service getting an increasing amount of pageviews and some of the process and memory intensive upgrades we are planning, it makes ... http://trentdv.com/2008/04/26/database-redundancy/ If you have haven't had a chance to hear about the new and upcoming changes to our system, I will let you know now!    Pretty soon we will be releasing the code to a new Dashboard and Admin area that is pretty similar, hopefully more organized and has a nicer ... http://trentdv.com/2008/04/20/upcoming-wpmu-15-upgrade/