Category Archives: Nerdery

Slow growth

May 17, 2008 – 12:07 pm

Ozblogistan is a one-man show, at the moment. I started it because I felt that an Australian-centric network of bloggers would be useful for newcomers, and because it would make it easier for everyone to earn a bit of pocket money from advertisers by aggregating page-selling power in one place.
So far I have been reluctant […]

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Don’t Feed The Server After Midnight

May 4, 2008 – 11:21 pm

I got an IM from a friend complaining that he couldn’t reach his ozblogistan site. I jumped into an SSH window and discovered that the system load was well north of 50. In non-nerd terms, this translates as “very bad”.
The culprit is PHP. This service is set up with a division of labour between the […]

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