Utilizing GZip with WordPress, Finally a Fast Blog…

The first half of this arti­cle will be taken directly from our pre­vi­ous post, as the need for a sin­gle default php.ini is nec­es­sary to con­fig­ure gzip. If read­ing our Magento post is what brought you to the site, and you’ve already con­fig­ured your default php.ini, than skip to the .htac­cess por­tion of the post. Oth­er­wise, were off…

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Nov 30, 2009 | Magento, Web Design, Wordpress | Leave A Comment »

The Correct Way To Set Up gzip with Magento

We wrote this arti­cle in response to post­ings offer­ing advice to users of Magento, an open source ecom­merce sys­tem. The advice is being given with good inten­tions, and the intent is only to assist their fel­low Magento users. But the advice being give may actu­ally have the poten­tial cause harm to the users site, or at the least a good deal of down time. The advice being offered is to help speed up Magento by enabling a server side caching sys­tem called gzip. What peo­ple don’t real­ize is that their being told to enable two sep­a­rate caching sys­tems. These two sys­tems tend not to play well together, and could cause harm to your install. While most peo­ple see pos­i­tive results, there are a rare few see­ing server side errors, data­base errors, and are stumped as to why.

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Nov 30, 2009 | Magento, Server 2003, Wordpress | 8 Comments »

AT&T U-verse 2wire Gateway and DD-WRT Router in DMZ Mode…

We’ve recently upgraded our ISP to AT&T U-verse. With this switch AT&T pro­vided a 2wire gate­way. So far the ser­vice has been excel­lent. Recently we setup a live chat sup­port fea­ture on the web­site, as you can see to the right. With this fea­ture we also plan to inte­grate a remote desk­top fea­ture, to allow us to pro­vide our clients with live and instant support.

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Sep 04, 2009 | Computer Repair and Networks | 17 Comments »

MySQL Server on Windows Vista x64 Setup Guide, An Install That Works!!!

After hours of beat­ing our heads against a wall, we’ve finally come up with a solid MySQL install guide. It wasn’t easy, but it’s some­thing we needed, and obvi­ously some­thing our fel­low devel­op­ers needed. We spent hours read­ing through end­less threads with errors such as;

Can­not Cre­ate Win­dows Ser­vice for MySQL. Error:0,
Vista x64 could not start the ser­vice mysql,
Win­dows could not start the mysql ser­vice on local com­puter error 1067,
Can’t create/write to file,
Can’t con­nect to [local] MySQL server,
Table ‘tbl_name’ doesn’t exist,

Yet even after read­ing through what seemed like hun­dreds of cries for help, and just as many sup­posed fixes, we were still no closer to resolv­ing this issue. So after com­ing to the real­iza­tion that there was lit­tle help to be had online, we just attacked our install, and dealt with the issues one by one. After repeated failed installs, and botched setups, we were able to get MySQL loaded prop­erly. The setup instruc­tions you see below were repeat­able on 4 dif­fer­ent machines, when fol­lowed prop­erly. If you run into an issue, please let us know. Good luck with your setup.

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Sep 01, 2009 | Computer Repair and Networks | 8 Comments »

WordPress, Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted

Dur­ing a rou­tine update to a Word­Press site we received the fol­low­ing error: Fatal error: Allowed mem­ory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allo­cate 7680 bytes) in /home/website/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1342 Scary stuff, but no need to panic. Chances are your Word­Press install is quite well used with lots pages, posts, and plu­g­ins. First off, don’t start dis­abling plu­g­ins and hack­ing code. Fol­low these sim­ple steps and you’ll be updated in no time.

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Aug 03, 2009 | Wordpress | 4 Comments »

“Help and Support” is missing after you upgrade to Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2

After you upgrade a Microsoft Win­dows Server 2003-based com­puter to Microsoft Win­dows Server 2003 Ser­vice Pack 2 (SP2), Help and Sup­port is miss­ing when you click Start. Addi­tion­ally, the Help menu is miss­ing in pro­grams that are run­ning on the Win­dows Server 2003 SP2-based computer.

Addi­tion­ally, when you type msinfo32.exe or Helpctr.exe at a com­mand prompt to try to start Help and Sup­port man­u­ally, you receive the fol­low­ing error mes­sage:
Win­dows can­not open Help and Sup­port because a sys­tem ser­vice is not run­ning. To fix this prob­lem, start the ser­vice named ‘Help and Sup­port’.
How­ever, when you start the Ser­vices Microsoft Man­age­ment Con­sole (MMC) snap-in, the Help and Sup­port ser­vice is not listed.

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Nov 22, 2008 | Server 2003 | Leave A Comment »