Finally, a world-class hypervisor – XenServer from Citrix is available for free business usage. I didn’t believe Citrix will be offering XenServer for free including Live motion and other features. Fully supported Windows and Linux OSes under 64-bit as well as 8 virtual CPUs! Very nice platform for virtualization and it doesn’t cost a dollar! It’s free. Use it!

You know you are a procrastinator and you have put off dealing with it as long as possible.  Now that you are determined to conquer procrastination, how do you start?

Enlist your friends.  Honestly telling them about the problem you are having tackling a specific project may have two beneficial results.  First, they will realize that you have to work and will not interrupt you during a designated time period.  Secondly, some of your peers may have a similar problem and you can form a type of support group; just don’t meet during work hours.

Create a workspace where it… Read the rest of this entry »

Procrastination is a habit and a mental attitude.  To break the habit we must confront the non-productive attitudes that we entertain and take action to start the project in spite of them.  People often use several well-known excuses to procrastinate.  These time worn reasons include not having enough time or the right work space or tools to attempt the job.  Procrastinators build a framework of ideal conditions that should be met before work can begin.  The first step in stopping procrastination is to confront the elements of this structure and dismantle them.

One favorite misconception procrastinators entertain about themselves is… Read the rest of this entry »

Recently I bought another hard drive and had to add it to my current working workstation that is powered by Windows XP.

I didn’t had a fdisk utility or any other commercial disk management software so I used built in Windows XP disk management utility called diskmgmt.msc
You can run it from Start -> Run -> diskmgmt.msc <hit enter>

And from there you can add partitions and of course format the drive. Good luck and I hope this small howto paper helps someone.

All WordPress themes have own graphic and CSS style files. If you are using content delivery network (CDN) services for distributing static content you should edit theme files and set-up full paths to load static content from CDN not your local web server software.

Using this method you will speed up file delivery and offload some processing load – your site will perform faster and with less latency. Also, don’t forget to edit CSS and PHP files to set-up full paths – avoid doing redirects as it will decrease your blog performance and probably cause some heavy load when your… Read the rest of this entry »

I would still love to see virtualized server in a high bandwidth environment hosting a large site with thousands of concurrent connections. I guess there is not much use for very large sites to use virtualization unless it provides advanced features like:

• live migration
• fail-over
• snapshots
• load balancing

However, virtualization software with the above features usually cost thousands of dollars and it’s out of reach for many folks that need to make some bucks from own sites and still survive occasional Digg or Yahoo frontpage landings. Dedicated servers offer 100% performance and doesn’t have any overhead… unless of… Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone is buzzing around virtualization and private servers these days. One of the most popular platform for server virtualization is XEN – it’ s very efficent, FREE, reliable and has a big community behind it. There are many folks that use it and even commercial providers use XEN in their commercial virtualization products. Xen is used as a base on Novell SLES XEN, Oracle VM, Citrix XenServer (they bought XEN actually), Virtual Iron it’ s been very stable and with high performance.

So if you want to test Windows or Linux distributive use Xen – it works… Read the rest of this entry »

Many of our readers are asking what KeepAliveTimeout setting should be used for Apache config. We usually select 2 to 5 seconds as it provides best performance for sites with medium visitors and prefer to use Nginx or any other front-end proxy to better manage thousands of multiple concurrent users.