Blog

So its been a while since I wrote there - I managed my 1 entry a week challenge what, 2 weeks?

I really want to say that I am going to pick up this blogging thing again, but that just isn't something that i can promise. I will try however.

Recently, thanks to my once again playing EVE Online, I have had the opportunity to talk to some people who deal with a lot of my interest subjects as their day job. This has allowed me to learn a lot about many different subjects.

One thing that came up recently (when I commented that my DNS server had fallen over) was that SQL backed DNS was stupid... except when there was some requirement for it to be updated by non-technical users. Now, given that is a large part of the reason I moved to using SQL backed DNS in the first place, I enquired about how to get around the various issues when using SQL backed DNS.

So, ever since I first got into coding, and probably even before, I have had some form of website. This website has almost always featured some from of blog component. The blog component started out as being there because it was just The Done Thing (tm) for personal websites. Over the years I have posted various things to my various blogs - ranging from treating it a like a diary during my teenage years (I think i have successfully purged these from the internet) thought to more recently treating it as a public note board - a place I can post things I don't use often but will probably need later.

So Today I was linked to an article about optimising your you web server by updating your Linux kernel to make use of a larger initial congestion window.

So this lead me to wander about some simpler optimisations, something any web developer can realistically do when they deploy an application, and just how much of an effect these opermisations have on a website.