Request_URI for IIS, NeoSmart Technologies’ compatibility toolkit for IIS on Windows, has been updated to version 1.1, with support for Helicon’s ISAPI_Rewrite 3.x
With this update the installation process has been simplified somewhat, in particular the need modify HTTPD.INI to set the server variables has been eliminated – you just need to install ISAPI_Rewrite 3, configure [...]
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Request_URI For IIS Updated with ISAPI_Rewrite 3 Support
Published by August 19th, 2008 in NeoSmart Technologies, Programming, Software, Windows 0 CommentsFile-Based Extension to the WordPress Object Cache
Published by March 29th, 2008 in Software 16 CommentsWordPress 2.5 has just been released, and has users are quickly finding out, file-based object caching has been removed from this release.
We’ve just released another extension to the WordPress object cache mechanism, supplementing our existing plugins for adding eAccelerator and XCache support to WordPress’s object caching features.
NeoSmart Technologies’ File-Based object caching extension for WordPress re-implements [...]
WordPress, PerformancePress, and GSoC 2008
Published by March 22nd, 2008 in NeoSmart Technologies, Programming, Software 8 CommentsFor those of you that haven’t yet heard, WordPress is once-more taking part in the Google Summer of Code. Google Summer of Code 2008 is a Google-sponsored program where college students are encouraged to contribute to their favorite open-source projects for a summer, and in exchange both they and their mentors receive some monetary compensation/motivation [...]
Caching and Why We Need It
Ever since the creation of interpreted languages and the birth of dynamic web content, developers have been on the lookout for tools, workarounds, and extensions in search of a solution for a solution to bring maximum performance to the world of dynamically-generated web pages.
Perhaps the simplest, most straight-forward, and most [...]
Don’t Believe The Lies: PHP Isn’t Thread-Safe Yet
Published by January 18th, 2008 in Programming, Software 20 CommentsIf you took everything you heard for granted, you’d have been lead to believe that the official PHP distributions (from php.net) have been thread-safe since version 5.2.0.
That’s not true. Don’t fall for it. Don’t attempt to use PHP in a multi-threaded environment (mpm_worker on Apache, ISAPI on IIS, etc.), because PHP thread-safety is a myth.. [...]
We’ve just finished uploading the latest versions of our XCache and eAccelerator plugins, now at version 0.6.
For those of you that missed the initial announcement, we’ve written two plugins that let WordPress communicate directly with memory-resident opcode PHP variable caches that are used in XCache and eAccelerator to boost performance and decrease I/O activity.
eAccelerator and [...]
Server Move Completed – NeoSmart Technologies Fully Optimized!
Published by October 19th, 2007 in NeoSmart Technologies, Software 3 CommentsWe’ve been working on moving to a new server all week, and we’ve just finished the transition. Best of all, we’ve switched to the new servers without any downtime in-between. Our new server is a 1.86 GHz Core 2 Duo and with 3GB of DDR2 RAM – all thanks to the awesome guys and gals [...]
FastCGI for IIS Final Released, Congratulations to the IIS Team!
Published by October 10th, 2007 in Microsoft, Reviews, Software 10 CommentsCongratulations are in order for Microsoft’s IIS development team – today they’ve just announced the public availability of the final version of the IIS-FastCGI ISAPI Extension – a long-awaited and much-improved way of running just about any open-source scripting engine on IIS, safely and quickly.
The Microsoft [[MSFT]] FastCGI module for IIS 5.1, 6, and 7 [...]
eAccelerator PHP Extension Isn’t Thread-Safe…
Published by September 10th, 2007 in Programming, Software, Windows 6 CommentsFor all the Windows-bound PHP users out there, consider yourselves warned: even if you’re running the (supposedly) thread-safe PHP Win32 binary redistribution, you’re still susceptible to PHP Access Violation Errors, race problems, heap corruption, and much worse if you use the popular eAccelerator opcode-caching extension.
We did our testing with the binaries compiled by SiteBuddy using the [...]
DDOS Attacks & Server Updates
Published by June 5th, 2007 in Hacking, NeoSmart Technologies, Security, Software 1 CommentToday, at or around 15:30 GMT, NeoSmart Technologies was victim of a distributed denial of service attack that lasted over two and a half hours. Unfortunately, as a result of the DDOS attack, our server had to be hard-restarted and we encountered some data corruption. All files were recovered with the exception of our MySQL [...]
