Installing APC on Amazon EC2 Instance

Some time ago, I wrote a short blog post explaining how to go about installing XCache on an Amazon EC2 instance to help with opcode caching. More recently, we’ve begun using APC for similar reasons, with excellent results, including on Amazon EC2 Micro instances, which can be used under their free usage tier to run …

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How to Make WordPress Auto-Thumbnails Work

If you’re recently installed WordPress onto a new server (we do this a lot on Amazon EC2 instances of varying sizes) and you notice that your image uploads aren’t auto-thumbnailing (when WordPress “crunches” your images into “thumbnail” “medium” and “large” sizes for use throughout your website) then chances are your server doesn’t have the GD …

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How to Restart MySQL After Editing innodb Log Size

Sometimes, either because we’ve got a puny amount of RAM available, or because we’ve recently boosted available RAM, we want to allow MySQL a different amount of memory for it’s innodb logs. However, when we change this, restarting MySQLd can cause a hiccup or two. Namely, the MySQL service won’t restart. If this happens, what …

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MySQL Innodb Tables Crashing on AWS EC2 Instance? Is Your Disk Full?

We’ve been asked to troubleshoot Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2) instances for a number of reasons. Recently, we took a look at an Amazon EC2 instance which was being used as a MySQL server and the task was to see why several MySQL innodb tables were crashing. The situation had got so …

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What does justified mean?

We mention sometimes in Tutorials, and content about Google Docs, or WordPress, or in some other places when we are talking about blocks of text, the word “justified”… but what does this mean? Well, the term generally means that the text forms a straight line on both sides – left and right. People sometimes also …

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How to set up a highly optimized Google Shopping feed with DataFeedWatch.com

If you run any kind of eCommerce store, regardless if you use Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, or the handful of other eCommerce solutions, you know the lifeblood of your store is targeted traffic. Google Shopping Ads (Google Merchant Centre), otherwise known as product listing ads (PLA), have been around a long time but certainly haven’t …

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