Dec 16 2002
We have made significant amendments and upgrades to the FTP server on our Win2K server. While we strive to perform this service during off hours, we were compelled to perform this service patch in 'prime-time' For our Flash Communication Server clients who were inconvenienced by this, we apologize. We hope the added security and stability will make the sacrifice worthwhile. We feel that we have solved the major issues we were facing, and it is our hope that no further mantenance of this type will be required.
Dec 5 2002
Metasphere.net renegotiated our bulk lease via QWest. We doubled our monthly requested capacity to continue fast reliable OC-3 bandwidth.
Nov 28 2002
Metasphere climbed the ranks today. It's now considered a 6 of 10 for PageRank Importance with Google. Yeah! see our Marketing Database for tips and tricks we used to raise our PageRank. A higher PageRank can result in a higher search engine placement. We were focusing on metasphere.net versus www.metasphere.net. Strangly, these two domains have different PageRank values. See google PageRank for more information. One noticeable difference right away was in the Google directory. We climbed 3 rungs in the hosting section. This section sorts by PageRank.
Nov 19 2002
Metasphere is soon to be available as a standard module. We will be porting some of our favorite tricks to CPAN soon. Most of the features are Linux dependant, but we've got some Windows tricks up our sleeves too. We are very proud to be porting a module to CPAN. If you write perl and haven't used CPAN before oh boy. Grab your hat fellas. CPAN is pure open-source beauty at its finest. CPAN And if you're strickly Windows, check out ASPN's Perl Package Manager (PPM). It's a well done attempt. Win32's CPAN-esque PPM comes with their standard Perl install.
Nov 12 2002
Our Win2k box is now running Apache. It's Apache2 and it's working great with our Flash Communications Server Package. Our Linux box is getting a RAM upgrade this evening. In the morning, RedHat Linux will be running 1 GIG of RAM. ImageMagick user's rejoice.
Oct 22 2002
In the works... We're looking into PostgreSQL. Benchmarking much faster than MySQL.
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MSServer supports 1000 simultaneous connections
PostgreSQL supported 32 simultaneous connections
MySQL supported 101 simultaneous connections
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Oct 18 2002
Apache mod_perl benchmark test results.
Mod_perl is an Apache extension which acts as a turbo boost for Perl. Our first
Mod Perl Bench Mark Testing was done last night. The results are incredible out of the gate. We look forward to installing a custom mod_perl bin in your server account. Stay tuned for more information.
| ImageMagick Test | Perl:
Mod_Perl:
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CGI Apache request without mod_perl
491(0.06070089340209)
492(0.06788706779479)
493(0.06995606422424)
494(0.06985306739807)
495(0.06995105743408)
496(0.06105697154998)
497(0.06875896453857)
498(0.06105089187622)
499(0.06077003479003)
took=39.25 seconds
to spider 500 cgi requests
from our server.
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CGI Apache request with mod_perl
491(0.009762048721313)
492(0.009758949279785)
493(0.009783029556274)
494(0.009758949279785)
495(0.009762048721313)
496(0.009767055511474)
497(0.009770035743713)
498(0.009770989418029)
499(0.009853005409240)
took=5.50 seconds
to spider 500 cgi requests
from our server.
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HTML requests with mod_perl
491(0.005037069320678)
492(0.005246996879577)
493(0.006127953529357)
494(0.005252003669738)
495(0.005008935928344)
496(0.007393002510070)
497(0.005203008651733)
498(0.005012989044189)
499(0.006462931632995)
took=3.34 seconds
to spider 500 pages
from our server.
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Oct 17 2002
MySQL was rebuilt and activated.
Oct 12 2002
mod_perl is now active on our system. Apache was recompiled.
