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I wanted a way to quickly purge the Nginx fastcgi cache from within WordPress, and quickly threw together a plugin that does the job.

Here I put together some Nginx rules to drop the final “index.htm” and “index.html” from pages.

Jishnu was an extremely fast and highly customizable theme I developed in 2013 based on a popular theme known as Arjuna X. Unfortunately, I didn’t develop Jishnu with the mobile web in mind, and thus, development ended in 2014. With the pace WordPress moves at, I suspect Jishnu wouldn’t work with newer versions of WordPress …

I had to work around a “The used table type doesn’t support FULLTEXT indexes” message to accommodate installation of a plugin. Just a few commands in MySQL and I was up and running.

Upon switching the website to a new host, I was faced with the dreaded “could not find” message. I put together a walk-through showing how to fix it.

A quick way to mirror your own site, I put together a short wget command and a quick explanation of the options I use – both for my own reference, and for you!

Simple CDN is down. And it looks like it’s not coming back any time soon.

I did some benchmarking (CPU-side, using PHP) of a few hosts. Here are the results, and a chart!

A look at SimpleCDN (free) vs Amazon’s paid CDN. Note that it’s not necessarily a fair comparison.

Solving a new issue in Joomla when migrating to a new server.

I was pondering whether to host my own DNS or go with hosted DNS, and put together some pros and cons of each.

The downside to installing WordPress plugins is the junk often left behind in the database when you remove them. Here’s what I came across (and removed) in mine.

The downside to relying on AWSTATS for statistics tracking through WHM is that if you move to a new host, it can take some manual work to get that data transferred. Here’s how I did it.

Clearing up some of my own confusion as it pertains to DNS.

Doing a 301 redirect to drop the WWW on a website through Apache rewrite rules in .htaccess .

A fairly standard webhost review of asmallorange.

In part 1, I go over a few reasons for trying out Chitika to begin with, and the experiment itself. In Part 2, I’m faced with disappointing early results, and try making a few changes, hoping for improvement.