Our hosting provider, VPS.net, was feeling a little blue, today (and yesterday).
Website Speed: Every Second Counts [Infographic]
Website speed matters.
Obvious, right? Everyone knows this, and we do what we can to help the speed performance of a website. From CDN to multiple tweaks, we do what we can to increase our website load time.
I always thought that it was a perceived speed. Meaning that, I thought if it felt fairly fast, it was fast enough.
After combing over this infographic, I now see that even a 100-millisecond slow-down can have huge effects:
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CouchDB 1.1.0 Released
CouchDB is a new NoSQL technology that’s gaining traction around the interwebs.
Since it is relatively new, I think it deserves another introduction, plus, version 1.1.0 has just been released!
Top Searches of Top Countries [Infographic]
I’ve always found the study of culture very interesting.
This infographic shows the top ten countries on the internet, along with each of their top searches in 2011.
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A Look At Facebook's New Datacentre
Robert Scoble is a very lucky man it seems!
He has just published a blog post which talks about a tour that he recently had around Facebook’s new datacenter in Prineville.
It’s pretty special, especially if you are a little bit geeky! See and read more by following the link below:
Use Server Density to Monitor Your Sites
I’ve been trying Server Density out for the last 2 weeks and I really like it. They’ve got a great mobile app for the iPhone which is really slick that provides near-real-time stats and even alerts for a number of different settings.