Jetpack WordPress plugin prepared the annual report for this blog’s last year activity. It was ready for a few days now, but somehow just fell through my posting cracks. So here you go.
Category: Site News
This website is very old. It’s been with me for many years. There are plenty of articles which are useful both for myself and the rest of the world. Bit by bit, word by word, link by link, image by image, this site was filled and filled over the years. Technologies changed. Some new techniques and concepts came up. Some old ones faded away. Spending as much time as I possible can (after everything else) on this site, sometimes I manage to introduce big changes – like a new bit of functionality or a totally different look. Not to confuse and scare everyone, I try to be open about the changes that were made. When something big is changed I post a description of what it was and why I felt the change was needed. These updates are published in this category.
Performance improvements
Just wanted to let you all know that I’ve made a couple of changes recently, which should result in a somewhat faster performance of this site.
Firstly, before the last weekend, I’ve moved all my DNS hosting to Amazon Route 53 service. This should result in faster DNS queries all around the globe and minimize the potential downtimes.
Secondly, I’ve installed and configured the JS & CSS Optimizer WordPress plugin, which now results in much fewer HTTP requests needed to load the page, as well as fewer bytes to be transferred around. I’m still tweaking the settings for this one to see how much I can squeeze out of it, but I already see an improvement.
As always, if you see any issues, please let me know.
On infinite scrolling
Two years ago (to the day) I blogged my opinion of the infinite scrolling. And what do I do now? I enable the infinite scrolling for this blog! Consistency? Who needs that …
Trying out Flounder
I’m trying out the Flounder WordPress theme for my blog. It’ll take a few moments for me to configure everything, so please don’t get annoyed just yet. Theme options are fine, but it looks like I have a few issues with custom post types, which aren’t matching my previous theme (Favepersonal). I’ll update this post once I’m done – that’ll be the time to report the issues.
Update (April 9, 2014, 01:47am): most of it works now. There are still a couple of small quirks for me to fix, but feel free to let me know if you see anything wrong.
Quick server update
And here is the moment we’ve all been waiting for … every single site on this server is now served by Nginx. Of course, there is Apache behind for now to smooth out the migration, but The World Domination is right around the corner.
P.S.: Placeholder websites are served by another instance of Nginx, which runs inside an OpenVZ virtual machine.
P.P.S.: Can anybody make any sense out if it?