NameHero Blog – What is LiteSpeed Web Server?

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LiteSpeed is a fantastic product despite its premium cost, it’s worth the extra cash investment.

We owe much of our success at NameHero to our high-speed infrastructure that is optimized for blazing fast performance. This makes our customers’ websites load ridiculously fast when compared to the more traditional hosting packages offered by the “Big Box” competitors around the web hosting industry. Our speed comes partly from the enterprise-grade server hardware that we deploy, but just as important is how we leverage LiteSpeed Web Server in all our servers. If your site is hosted at NameHero, you can bet that it’s running on LiteSpeed rather than the more traditional LAMP Stack solutions which rely on Apache Web Server.

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What is LiteSpeed Web Server?
LiteSpeed is a lightweight piece of server software that conserves resources without sacrificing performance, security, compatibility, or convenience.
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NameHero Blog – Table Size in PostgreSQL: Everything You Need To Know

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Have you ever needed to know more about working with table size in PostgreSQL? Well this one is for you, check out the excerpt below and head on over to the NameHero Blog to devour this tasty snack.

In this article, we will focus on the topic of table size in the PostgreSQL database environment. We will cover the three major components that make up a table, how to calculate the size of those components as well as the total overall size of a given sample table. When finished, we will have addressed several common questions related to PosgreSQL tables. 

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Table Size in PostgreSQL: Everything You Need To Know
What is PostgreSQL? What is a database? What is a table? What are the three parts of a postgres table? How to get table size in postgres? How to get table tablespace size in postgres? How to get table index size in postgres? How to get total table size in postgres? Why are tables larger on-disk than in memory?
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NameHero Blog – Everything You Need To Know About Tar Files & The Linux Command Line

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Checkout my article on the NameHero.com blog about how to use the TAR command on the Linux command line. It’s a meaty one, I’ve included the opening excerpt and topic links below.

Tar is an immeasurably useful archival tool available on most Linux/Unix-based systems. It is used regularly as part of Linux systems administration at all skill level. This article will tackle a number of common usage case and questions regarding tar. When finished, you will have learned how to effectively utilize tar archives to: compress, create, extract, modify, and otherwise operate on archive files in your day to day workflows. Before we being, lets review the full list of questions this article will answer.

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Everything You Need To Know About Tar Files & The Linux Command Line
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Apache Performance Tuning Series: Part I. Swap Memory

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This series is focused on harnessing the power of your Apache configuration. Part one in this series covers the common occurence of the Thrashing condition that happens when an Apache configuration is overtuned for its available hardware. Check out my indepth analysis including tips on how to avoid this condition and make your Apache server run the way it should.

Apache Performance Tuning: Swap Memory – Liquid Web
In our series, we explore how to get the most out of your server through performance tuning in Apache. Our first tutorial defines swap memory as we calculate how to avoid constant swapping, also known as thrashing.
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Apache Performance Tuning Series: Part II. Apache MPM Modules

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My indepth analysis and tips on optimizing your Apache server continues in Part 2, where we evaluate the available  MPM modules in Apache. We cover how to choose the right MPM for your server needs.

Apache Performance Tuning: MPM Modules – Liquid Web
Get the most out of your server through performance tuning in Apache. The second article in our tutorial provides a breakdown of the MPM modules intended running a more efficient server.
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Apache Performance Tuning Series: Part III. Apache MPM Directives

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Moving into part 3 of my Apache Performanc Tuning Series. We will cover the specific directives we should be considering when optimizing our Apache server. There are directives specific to your MPM and common to all MPMs. We will go over what these directives do and suggestions for how to configure them. We will also cover using IfModule to maintain the highest level of compatability  within our Apache configs.

Apache Performance Tuning: MPM Directives – Liquid Web
In our series, we explore how to get the most out of your server through performance tuning in Apache. Our third tutorial explores Apache MPM Modules and recommended directive settings for environments.
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Apache Performance Tuning Series: Part IV. Configuring MPM Directives

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Part 4 of this series provides indepth instructions for how exactly to change directives on various Liquid Web system types. Just click your specific server type and follow the instructions one by one.

Apache Performance Tuning: Configuring MPM Directives – Liquid Web
The fourth tutorial closes our Apache Performance Tuning series and covers optimization configurations for CentOS 6/7 and Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 servers. Whether you are using Plesk, cPanel, WHM or command line, we’ll show you how to adjust Apache configuration directives to get the most out of your server.
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Round-Robin- A simplistic load balancing approach. Traffic is sent to each node in series, one after the other, jumping back to the beginning of the list once the end is reached. (e.g., Node 1 → Node 2 → Node 3 → Repeat)

Load Balancing Tricks

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The hosting world’s bread & butter solution for providing high availability and redundancy is load balancing. There are many different use cases for a Load Balancer (LB). It is important to know how to effectively manage your LB configuration so that it performs optimally in your environment. The proceeding article will review some of the common practices that, when adhered to, provide a smooth and seamless high availability website/application through the use of load balancing.

MySQL Performance Series: Part II. MyISAM vs InnoDB

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The second article in my multi-part series on MySQL Performance. Published by Liquid Web, Inc on the Liquid Web Knowledge Base. This article discusses the use cases for both MyISAM and InnoDB, a widely contentous topic to be sure. Both MySQL engines have their niche and in their niche they perform very well. This article is a guide to understanding when, why and how to use MyISAM vs InnoDB.

MySQL Performance: MyISAM vs InnoDB

MySQL Performance Series: Part I. Identifying Long Queries

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The first in a multi-part series on MySQL Optimization written for Liquid Web, Inc. This one covers the basics of identifying bottlenecks using mysqladmin and mysql to view the MySQL process list. If you’ve been interested in optimizing your database setup, this is just the start of a longer series where I cover several topics all related to MySQL Optimization.

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