Visit to Fort Tryon Park and Washington Heights
On a sunny March afternoon i took a walk in Fort Tryon Park, which is up in Washington Heights area in New York City. Technically speaking it is upper Manhattan, where you get by taking an A train up to 190th street. The entrance to the park is right there when you get out of the subway.
Simulating high-traffic for Linode VPS via LoadImpact
Thanks to the opportunity given to me by guys from LoadImpact.COM i recently tested my Linode 512 MB VPS with advanced load levels, simulating well-almost a "slashdot effect". And while my WordPress blog was able to withstand a maximum load of 250 simultaneous users (that's what these guys use as a measure of load simulation) for one of my client's Drupal installation numbers were not really that good. Take a look at graphs with comments after the break.
Make your LEMP website faster by installing eAccelerator
The other day i had a discussion with someone about how fast Java-powered website are, because the code is compiled and serving a page takes a breeze. The point of discussion was me writing code using php, which is a scripting language and compiles code on-the-fly every time you make a request to the website.
So i decided to take a little experiment involving current LEMP (php-fpm/mySQL Linode VPS host) setup for the client's WordPress blog and add eAccelerator to it.
Log only certain file types being downloaded from your website with nginx access_log directive
Say you host a website where you have workshops in PDF and would like to get statistics on how many people download them, but due to the setup of your CMS (in my case Drupal) and links being already on the website it is almost impossible. Luckily, those of you who use Nginx as their web server can configure it to log only certain file types being downloaded.
Here is how
Downtown New York Rentals Market is about to change forever
About a half-a-year ago i wrote this post on finding a cheap and livable space in Downtown of New York City.
As one of the movie characters once said "real new yorker always looks for a better job, better apartment and a better relationship". So do i, looking once again into rentals postings on Craigslist. So what has changed? What's new and good?
About
Oleksiy Deverishchev is a freelance web developer living in New York City. In this blog he shares his experience with various gadgets and web technologies.
He is available for the following gigs:
- Microsoft Access projects
- website design and re-design services
- php/MySQL development
- Java and Grails development
- virtual private server (VPS) migration, setup and tune-up
For more information and hiring availability please send an email to alex@webandblog.com
Recent works / current clients
- Colette Maison Lumiere - multimedia artist: design and coding for the CMS.
- Complete Body & Spa - New York City personal training and gym management company: Wordpress template coding.
- DaleStyle Blog Dale Sudakoff’s fashion blog: Wordpress template coding.
- DoctorKalitenko.COM - Sergey Kalitenko : antiaging hollistic doctor performing bioidentical replacement therapy. CMS coding and design.
- FindRoomRent.COM - verified room rentals classifieds. Own project: design, implementation and continuos iteration.
- Great Jones Spa - premiere New York City Day Spa: coded and designed website and storefront
- Nike Communications - PR company. Design and Drupal CMS integration.
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