CakePHP vs CodeIgniter Benchmark Performance

August 27th, 2010 Pierre HENELLE 2 comments

Greeting everyone,

I’ll post today anotherĀ  benchmark result which compare CakePHP versus CodeIgniter, 2 popular php framework that help coder building their site quickly.

I’m not an expert with PHP framework, since there are so many and they evolute everyday, so I’m not posting here to present another vague comparison on “which framework is the best” and “why to choose one instead of another”…

On this post, I only want to display server’s performance comparison between cake and CI.

The test will create a variable “hello world” in the controller, and then display it in the view (pretty simple), no cache (except APC opcode), blank page with variable to be displayed.

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Using htaccess to redirect domain to www

August 26th, 2010 Pierre HENELLE No comments

Welcome back!!

Today, I’ll show you an easy rule to redirect domain.com to www.domain.com to help you prevent your site from duplicate content. I know it has been said thousand of time on other site about it, but I still meet persons/companies that doesn’t properly configure their address…

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Categories: Apache, Linux, Web, seo Tags: ,

Choosing the best redirect for your SEO

August 7th, 2010 Pierre HENELLE 3 comments

Greetings everyone !!!

Today I’ll talk a bit about page web redirection, also called redirect and how to use them properly to optimize your SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

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Categories: Web, seo Tags: ,

Using iptables to reject w00tw00t.at.ISC.SANS.DFind scanners

June 10th, 2010 Pierre HENELLE No comments

Hello people,

I found recently in my apache log thousands of “w00tw00t.at.ISC.SANS.DFind” requests coming from all parts of the world.

I’ve been searching for solutions to remove their hits because they consume resources on my servers and they doesn’t help when computing my visitors stats…

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Categories: Apache, Linux, Security Tags: , , ,

Using Firefox to customize your website

June 9th, 2010 Pierre HENELLE No comments

Greeting all,

Today I’ll talk about Firefox and various plug in you can install to customize or debug your website

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Categories: CSS, Javascript, Web Tags: , ,

Tuning your MySQL server for free

June 3rd, 2010 Pierre HENELLE No comments

Greeting all,

I had to tune my personal MySQL server recently, and I found a nice tool which helps and advise you for free on the basic way to do it…

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Categories: Debian, MySQL, Performance Tags: , ,

Setting up a permanent SSH tunnel between 2 servers

May 20th, 2010 Pierre HENELLE No comments

Greeting everyone,

Today, I’ll show you how to setup an easy and permanent SSH tunnel that auto reconnect in case of failure between two linux servers.

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Categories: Linux, Security Tags: ,

Using Google Analytics to analyze your website’s traffic

May 2nd, 2010 Pierre HENELLE No comments

Greeting everyone !

Today I will talk a little bit about Google Analytics, a free tools to analyze your site’s visitors and traffic.

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Categories: Analysis, Javascript, Web Tags: , ,

Creating “jeans effect” background on your website

April 30th, 2010 Pierre HENELLE 1 comment

Greeting everyone,

Today I’ll show you how to make little graphic design on your website, using a background mosaic that will look like jean. In another word, pretty cool :p

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Categories: CSS, Design Tags:

Monitoring your website for free

April 24th, 2010 Pierre HENELLE 2 comments

Monitoring your website is a common thing webmaster and admin sys need to do everyday.

It’s true it exists many software or services available on the Internet, for cheap price, but if you could find the same service for free, why would you pay ?

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Categories: Free, Performance, Web Tags: , ,