One of the servers we’ve had for a while was running a bit slow.  After a few hours of searching, I’ve found out that one of the PHP scripts was running a mailer and it was just dragging the system down.  Although most of the load was through exim, our mailer, I found that apache was hogging up a bit of resources as well.  Since our server load was high and we were getting a decent number of visitors hitting on our vBulletin as well as a PHP lyrics script that I partially wrote for our Vietnamese lyrics website.  I went to search on how to optimize PHP scripts and I came up with eAccelerator. (more…)

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I am the webmaster of WSU’s ACM Chapter.  Since past webpages for our ACM site has been done by hand in HTML, it is hard to update or add information.  It is even harder to teach a future webmaster the ropes, and what will eventually happens it that it gets neglected.  It is for also many other reasons that the ACM Club at our school isn’t doing so well, but that’s information for another post.  Since I am the "official" webmaster for our new website, I have decided that it is a lot wiser to use some sort of CMS (Content Management System).  Due to a variety of reasons, I’ve opted to use Drupal. (more…)

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