Its more time than I estimated but now CInk v2 is almost finished. CInk still has some trouble with handling loops in paths. I am working to iron that out. Yesterday I completed its documentation and its new site. All will be released together.
Thanks to Code Mirror library, the code editor on the new site will support code formatting and syntax highlighting. Stay tuned.
I was told Nginx is superbly efficient and is the only way I can keep my server from being thrashed every two days. Yesterday I moved to Nginx. So far so good. If it runs fine for a week without issue then fine. Keeping my fingers crossed. Will post my Nginx configs then.
One more thing before I sign off. Apache processes are bloated since it has mod_php embedded in it. In case of Nginx you need to rung Php processes separately. So, in this case we must count the memory usage as the combined total of Nginx and Php. In many cases you will end up with the same memory size as that for Apache but there is a catch here.
Nginx processes have very low memory footprint and it can alone serve all the static files, very efficiently. This will cut down on a huge load since, on your WordPress powered blog too, there are loads of static files – images, Javascript, CSS, etc. Only the Php rendered page will tax the system, but hold on, here comes the second catch!
Your blog’s content doesn’t update every day or minute. So, why do we need to go to Php for each and every user and re-render the page again? Well we don’t need to. WP Supercache is a plugin for WordPress which does just that. It generates the static htmls of your pages and keeps them on the disk. Whenever you publish something then it will update the related static html. Cool isn’t it. What is cooler is then you can configure Nginx to directly pickup that generated static html from disk and serve it to the user, completely bypassing the bloated Php. 🙂 Only when it doesn’t find the needed static html file then it will need to go to Php to generate it.
As I reported before, I have moved to “cloud” based hosting from eApps. Moving to “cloud” was no easy task, and more than once it knocked the lights out of me. After many tussle and numerous tickets, rackets, hair uprooting exercises and under the hood tweaking, I guess now I can rest easy.
To celebrate this occasion and to save myself from further boredom of using the old theme, I have moved to this new theme. Hope you enjoy this. 🙂
OOh, BTW, the Bengali tag line under the banner is the literal translation of Apple and phonetic transformation of Grew. So, the Bengali text should be read as – Aaa-pel Gru. 😉
http://youtu.be/eh1O8a-vs0s
When I heard this song for the first time, I didn’t like it at all, because my roomie sang it to me. His “singing” was rather a recitation and that too it in a coarse way. When I heard the real song, it was, well really catchy.
The video song UTV have relased is non-the-less really unique and fitting to the song. View it above.
Looks could be deceiving. While to users applegrew.com and its children (cink and blog) may look the same as before, but under the hood they are running from a new server.
I have moved to eApps cloud based hosting plan from my previous VPS plan. Since for a few cents more I am getting more RAM and the flexibility to increase my hardware capacity in case of too much load.
After some hiccups yesterday, finally it is online and going good. 🙂
CInk (Beta) is now online at http://cink.applegrew.com/, and do check out its gallery at http://cink.applegrew.com/art.html.
