LQ Code Upgrade

I’m happy to announce that after a slight delay, we’ve rolled out the most recent code upgrade to LinuxQuestions.org. You won’t see a huge difference at the site as the main layout remains unchanged. You should notice some performance and usability improvements, nice new features and more ajax sprinkled throughout (using the YUI library). A lot of what you can’t see, however, is behind the scenes. Some common items are now a bit easier for mods and this code base gives us a flexible framework to move forward with some other functionality we’d like to implement. Stay tuned. Thanks once again goes to David for his continued help at LQ.

–jeremy

Hello MediaTemple (mt)?

My apologies to all blog readers for the recent performance issues. This site is currently hosted by a MediaTemple (gs) GridServer account. The performance has been nothing short of horrific. It’s a shame – (mt) clearly has some really smart people and the (gs) product looks really compelling from a technical standpoint. I like the idea of having my blog off the main LQ infrastructure for a variety of reasons, including the fact that if there is a problem with the main LQ colo I can post updates to my blog. With the state of the current setup, some blog posts have been taking literally hours and dozens of attempts to post. In the last two days, multiple posts have simply been completely lost. A simple ‘ls’ sometimes takes 10-15 seconds. I’d highly suggest to (mt) that they stop accepting new customers until they can fix the current issues, but in the mean time I’ll be looking for a different provider. Thanks for sticking with me in the mean time.

UPDATE: MediaTemple has been beta testing a new storage model that they think will vastly improve performance. They’ve been kind enough to offer to move me to that ASAP. Maybe I won’t have to move the blog after all. Stay tuned. BTW, kudos to (mt) for having a sysadmin start answering my tickets as opposed to a Customer Support Agent.

–jeremy