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Changes, updates to this site!
It’s been done! Last week I moved to a bit faster and better Server. Nah! Not in World of Warcraft! The Hardware that this Website runs on. Not like I have thousands of visitors, but now and then some major site links to this one and things start to get slow, really slow 😀
The major issue of the server was its operating system that had end of life cycle 2 years ago and new features became more tedious to deploy.
This Server was set up in 2007 on SuSE 10.1 & Plesk 8.1, but meanwhile SuSE 10.1 reached end of life cycle and is no logner being supported. It got increasingly tedious to keep up to date with current security patches. The main reason for delaying an upgrade was that SuSE isn’t very good to upgrade form each build to the next and this server runs several productive realms and databases.
Nevertheless I had been looking around for a decent new Operating System and decided to go for CentOS as it is very friendly towards upgrades.
Anyway here is how I did it.
„How to upgrade SuSE 10.1/Plesk 8.4 to CentOS 5.5/Plesk 9.5“ weiterlesen
For a couple of months I have been moody about this site’s performance. This server serves only a couple of domains and this is by far the most visited of them – yes, really 😀
This server is a vServer from a mass hoster running on ancient hardware shared with other people and I assumed it was one reason aside a bloated WordPress install with loads of plugins that raised response times to an unendurable degree. We had like 5 seconds on a cached page before anything was even served.
Here it is, the new look of the site www.myrddin.de! It all started out when I noticed that Google often pointed visitors tot he wrong pages related to the search terms. I started the category „recent searches“ to write some posts to get google to point at better content by targeting at the exact search terms.
When browsing for information about wordpress I realized that the look of the website was quite old and the „cool myrddin 3D model“ (you can still find it under „My Characters„) cost a lot of loading time. Also there are some nice plugins that helped to improve serving content.
Now, if you come here via search engine, for example „mace rogue“ the right sidebar will show the search query and a list of related posts. At the end of each post there is a link to other posts dealing with similar content. If that doesn’t help you can use the search function ont he right or any list of tags, categories, pages. Hopefully you find what you are looking for now!
Just notice the rogue stuff is rather outdated sinc eI stopped playing „Slant, the Mace Rogue“ at the start of Tbc. Basically I am not trying to gather all information tha tis available, and prefer to provide summaries of Shaman related information and other „cool“ stuff, like for example taming garwal.
Everything is modular now which makes it easier to add and modify new features.I know there are still a few glitches, but I am working on resolving things asap.
Thanks for stopping by!
While playing around with some wordpress functionalities I realized that my old theme was getting really old. No widget support and the posts are looking somewhat boring.
During the next days I’ll play around with themes and designs … If you realize that some things aren’t working as they should you should come back in a few days.
There will probably be minor design glitches, but the postings and comments should still be functioning. The new design will provide many useful interesting functions 🙂