Let me know if it’s not…

will keep you updated here and at paulpbaker.info

p.s. for those that care the new server is much faster here’s the specs (server1 is the current server and server2 is the new one):

Server1 Specs:
CPU: AMD Opteron 1212, Dual Core, 2.0GHz
RAM: 1GB
HDD: 160GB
Connection: 100Mbits, 1500GB Bandwidth
OS: Ubuntu Server Edition 7.10 (Linux)

Server2 Specs:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+, Dual Core, 2.4GHz
RAM: 2GB DDR2
HDD: 250GB
Connection: 100Mbits, 2000GB Bandwidth
OS: Ubuntu Server Edition 7.10 (Linux)

EDIT: Move complete

Expected downtime is none BUT you might get a message that your on the old server :)

Sorry for any inconvenience!

EDIT: 24hrs delay due to family issues sorry guys (always happens i know) so it’ll be Sunday night NOT Saturday night!

EDIT2: will be moving servers later today at about 12am-2am uk time (19-21hrs from this post) sorry for the delay

More info on Server #2

PPBHost.COM is now also on Server #2

Speed up your web pages with YSlow

YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.

After scanning a site you get a score out of 100 (100 being the best) and a rank from A to F

As an example here are the results for alexa.com’s top 5 sites by popularity/views:

1. yahoo.com = A (92)

2. youtube.com = C (72)

3. live.com = B (89)

4. google.com = A (94)

5. msn.com = C (72)

As you can see they are all high scores but not all sites are as high

Here is an example of 3 BIG sites with low scores:

digg.com = F (51)

torrentfreak.com = F (48)

mininova.org = F (55)

I’m sure you get the point by now and here’s what my current site scored:

paulpbaker.com = F (44)

paulpbaker.com/forum = F (49)

simpsonseps.com = D (63)

paulpbaker.info = F (41)

ppbhost.com = F (54)

After many many hours of correcting things like expires headers, gzip components, avoiding css expressions, reducing dns lookups, minify js, configure etags etc I finally finished tweaking and have some good results

In part 1 of this 2 parter I’ll be looking/tweaking the following sites:

simpsonseps.com, paulpbaker.info, ppbhost.com

In part 2 I’ll be tweaking the following sites:

paulpbaker.com, paulpbaker.com/forum (2 different scripts integrated together)

Here are the results for part 1:

simpsonseps.com = B (82)

paulpbaker.info = B (80)

ppbhost.com = B (84)

Some amazing results if you ask me and the only things i lose points for is not having a cluster of server to host the site on and having a few external scripts (like the shoutbox on simpsonseps.com for example) but nether will slow the site down so it’s an almost perfect score

Conclusions: The load time for ppbhost.com haven’t really change as it’s a very small site BUT for paulpbaker.info the results are amazingly fast and for simpsonseps.com there also really really improved!!

Lets see what i can do in part 2 for paulpbaker.com and paulpbaker.com/forum :)

Please Note: As well as using YSlow for analysing the sites I used a script called php speedy for compressing the javascript, css and to enable gzip compression on all php/html files