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Keeping track of 300 servers
Since WordPress.com broke 10 million pageviews today, I thought it would be a good time to talk a little bit about keeping track of all the servers that run WordPress.com, Akismet, WordPress.org, Ping-o-matic, etc. Currently we have over 300 servers online in 5 different data centers across the country. Some of these are collocated, and […]
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California Road Trip
Granted, it’s not a 7000 mile trek on a 1985 Honda motorcycle, but 1081 miles in a semi-comfortable car is long enough for me. Heading out tomorrow, be back in about a week. Hope to see a few friends along the way. Day 1 Distance Traveled – 270 miles Driving Time – 6.5 hours Location […]
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Calling all F1 WordPressers
Any WordPress users at the US Formula One Grand Prix this weekend? If so, I thought it would be neat to meet up and watch either the morning practice session or qualifying tomorrow (Saturday). For the morning practice at 10AM I was thinking about finding a seat in the grandstand at turn 10. For qualifying […]
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PHP 4 vs PHP 5 Basic Benchmark
I’ve been doing some preliminary research and testing to see if upgrading to php 5 is something we want to do on WordPress.com and if so, how soon. Here are the results of a simple apache bench test of a phpinfo page. The test environment was as follows: Hardware: Dual AMD Opteron 246 2GB RAM […]
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One milllllliion blogs on WordPress.com
At 10:56:22PM PDT on 5/23/2007, the 1 millionth active blog was registered on WordPress.com. And the winner is….. claudiacanals.wordpress.com Not much there right now, but hopefully there will be soon. Maybe head over and leave a comment on their about page to let them know! Predictions on how long it will take to get to […]