It’s no secret that this site is ran on top of Apache and MySQL. In fact, since I’ve previously advertised that this is a WordPress site, that is really clear.
Given my recent server move, I’ve been reconfiguring certain things. In fact, I have control that I have never had before, and truthfully I’ve learned things I’ve previously masked myself from. Despite possible difficulties and risks, I shouldn’t have done that to myself; I’d recommend to anyone to take responsibility of setting up their own server. It’s wroth while learning.
That said, I ran in to a small issue where the entire site wasn’t always rendering. While I’ve never completely isolated the problem, I did recall coming across the following on ServerFault:
When Apache and MySQL are installed their default configs assume they are working with more RAM available to them which can cause problems.
Along with that, the author posted starting guidelines which one can use to tweak their own install. While I’m not a Sys-Admin expert, I suspect this would be a good starting guideline. I don’t want to republish other peoples work, and hence the links are below:
Programming books are elusive for me. I often ry to start reading them and 99.9% of the time I end up not finishing the book… Even though, I usually will gt more than half way though the book. This is a very bad trend the I’m aiming to reverse this year. As I posted earlier, I’m currently reading Head First Design Patterns and am at the halfway point.
I intend to finish the book yet and I’m still doing good with reading it. I usually read after work for at least 20 to 30 minutes. It is usually good enough for me to cover about 5 pages. I’ve read the book for as long as 3 hours before but that isn’t possible to do every night… 
Several great bloggers have posted several book lists. I’m sure that most developers that have been following blogs are aware of them but as a reminder they are below. Check them out… How many of the books on their lists have you read? What would you add to their list and why? (Leave a comment below, I’m really curious as I’m going to start building a list of books to read.)
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SixEssentialLanguageAgnosticProgrammingBooks.aspx
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000020.html
I specifically want to put Head First Design Patterns on their lists. I know that the Head First series can look a little silly (when simply flipping though the book), however I feel that the content is very well presented, is kept relevant and can hold your attention (this is very important to finishing the book as well as getting something out of it).
I know some might argue but that is my two cents.
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