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Should you use Memcache if you are already using Opcache?

Tech April 4, 2024

Caching systems play a pretty important role in optimizing website performance, these work by storing frequently accessed data or resources in memory or disk, reducing the need to fetch them from the server or database repeatedly, this is of course on the server side, externally you can always cache with CDN (content distribution network) or other type of worker systems (these can do calculations), the combination of these both internal and external caching systems enhance website responsiveness, reduce server load, and improve scalability, contributing to a smoother user experience, and thats what we all want, right!

Im talking about this because I’ve been a big fan of Memcache/Memcached for years, but with opcache im kinda in the fence if i need to keep using both, because both do the same thing in different ways as well as different things all at the same time, in the sense that they overlap quite a bit and as we all know a caching system is useful to the point that it adds noticeable more performance for little extra resources, if it’s just adding a bit more performance, then its adding more complexity and less overall performance (since the caching system to work needs to use resources as well), so let’s check both of these caching systems, and see if you reach the same conclusion i did:

OPCache

- OPCache is a bytecode cache for PHP scripts. It caches compiled PHP code in memory, which helps in speeding up the execution of PHP scripts by avoiding the need for PHP to recompile the scripts on each request.
- OPCache improves PHP performance by reducing the time required for parsing and compiling PHP scripts.
- OPCache is primarily focused on optimizing the performance of PHP code execution.

Memcache

- Memcache, on the other hand, is a distributed memory caching system. It is used to store key-value pairs in memory across multiple servers.
- Memcache is often used to cache data that is frequently accessed or that doesn’t change frequently.
- Memcache is primarily focused on caching data from a database or expensive computation results, thus reducing the load on the database and improving overall application performance.

So now, regarding whether you should use Memcache if you’re already using OPCache, this is kinda the way i see it:

You can still use both:
- If your application has a need for caching data that doesn’t change frequently, or if you want to reduce the load on your database by caching frequently accessed data, then using Memcache alongside OPCache can be beneficial.
- OPCache will optimize the execution of your PHP scripts, while Memcache can cache data to improve overall application performance.
Maybe it’s not really required:
- However, if your application doesn’t have a significant need for caching data or if it’s a small-scale application where caching data in memory isn’t critical, you might not need to incorporate Memcache, also of course if you don’t use a database then Memcache has less uses.
- While OPCache alone can still provide performance benefits by caching and reusing compiled PHP scripts.

So in that sense seems like in a vacuum more often than not it’s best to use both, you use OPcache to cache php and then use Memcache to cache database data and computations, however that is in a vacuum, when you have other caching like nginx/litespeed/server side caching, local page caching, cdn’s like cloudflare, i kinda have a sense that both opcache and memcache give you just a small boost, so the more important point i guess it’s that it depends a lot on your site and application needs.

Let’s say if you have a normal well cached wordpress site (cache plugin and maybe cloudflare), thats updated daily im not sure you really need opcache and memcache, at all, but if i had to choose i would go with opcache since it seems the more light of the two and also not all requests are to the database (ie there are always way more php requests than database requests), but if i have a site or app that cant be cached often, then yes having both running seems like the best choice, even if i still caching locally or with a cdn, hope this made sense hahaha 🙂

My Top WordPress Tips and Tricks

News November 30, 2023

Gotta say this one took a while to start up, i think its been like 4 years in the drafts, not that i didn’t have anything to say hahaha, more that i was changing my mind, i kinda always want to make interesting posts and not just another copy paste nonsense, if i say something, it means i tried it and it works!

WordPress has been an important part of my web stack, i would say half of my sites run wordpress, as a cms or even as a simple app, wordpress has grown a lot and it has changed a lot, so take my ideas with a grain of salt, also im keeping this more general, i’ll make more posts about each point, especially if you guys ask for it! ;D

Some hehehe of my Best Tips and Tricks for WordPress

Get yourself some good hosting! No you don’t need AWS iron clad professional hosting or “professional wordpress host”, but you need something that works good from a reputable company, i’ll post some recommendations below, but if you want your wordpress site to run smoothly it all starts with a good host.

WordPress.com is a good alternative! On the segway from hosting, you can instead of self host, always try wordpress.com in my opinion its expensive, but you absolutely get what you pay, so if you are 100% newbie or you want to run a super high end wordpress site, just pay for wordpress.com.

Backup Backup and Backup some More! My backup strategy is multilayer and maybe a good idea for a future post, but make sure your host makes backups and you make backups as well, in my opinion the best is if you can make them automatic, so you don’t need to worry, the more important the wordpress site, the more backups you should have, it’s good your host makes backups but never rely on those, i’ve learned that the hard way!

Create Layers of Security! I see a lot of people recommending security plugins for wordpress and “firewalls”, not saying that they aren’t good, things like Jetpack Protect are pretty good, but don’t let your security be based on just one plugin and one setting, your host should already provide some security, i also like to lock down most things in the wordpress settings, especially if its stuff i don’t need, like file editing and finally i use Cloudflare to keep the site fast but the also to lockdown and secure the backend, also you can separate the backend from the main site (ill post about this some other time) to create a static wordpress site! The point is security works best if it has several layers to go through.

Keep Everything Updated! I don’t mean just wordpress, plugins and themes, i mean your host needs to update things or if you are running the web server, you need to keep the updates, you can’t rely just in strong security, that’s just one like of protection, keeping everything updates means most of the time better performance and better security.

Setup WordPress Correctly on First Install! If you setup wordpress correctly that avoids a lot of the issues of wordpress, things like not having an admin user or the database be called wp_ , there are a bunch of sites online that explain this step by step, and i know wordpress taunts that its super easy to install, but trust me, take 15 minutes to install and setup and you will have a more secure and performant wordpress.

Use a Cache Plugin! I hate this, i think wordpress should have a caching system and a SEO system built in, but it doesnt and it makes a huge diference, if you have a litespeed server, you can use the plugin Litespeed Cache, but i also like WP Super Cache and WP Fastest Cache, but any of the top plugins will do just fine.

Try and Avoid Overusing Plugins! WordPress plugins are great, they open up the platform, like i said above im going to install a cache plugin and a seo plugin, but think extra hard about installing any plugin, the less you have the more performance and secure your install will be, so only install the absolute essential plugins.

And that’s it, why oh why did it take this long to publish this… oh well better late than never, have a good one!

Oh and the hosting recommendations, well check BuyShared from BuyVM (its where this site is hosted), also check MyW and Knownhost! ;D

Black Friday Deals Page

News November 21, 2023

Not sure about you, but on Black Friday and Cyber Monday i tend to take both days like a big tech shopping day, every year i randomly spend both days finding all the promotions and getting myself some sweet sweet deals, so if i’m already spending some time shopping around why not share my finds, it’s a win win for everyone.

And be sure i’m not going to put every single tech deal i find, just the ones i think are cool, a really good deal or even if the deal isn’t awesome that i think the product itself is worth it, that’s it, so between black friday and cyber monday expect me to update my black friday & cyber monday deals page with some juicy offers.

Also i’m adding to the page other pages that feature black friday deals as well as a quick search engines that checks all of these pages for deals, so even if i don’t add this or that deal you can easily find lots of deals or search for specific deals you are interested! ;D

And finally i’m not gonna add like amazon, walmart, staples, microsoft, steam, google links or other major stores, i know these have black friday promotions, and you can go check out your favorite stores, but most of my offers will be from independent companies and products and not a specific product in a major store.

Ah and just in case you don’t know what im talking about, The term “Black Friday” is believed to have originated in Philadelphia in the 1950s. Stores would use the term to describe the increased traffic and congestion on the day after Thanksgiving. The term “Black” was used to represent the stores’ profits turning from “red” to “black” due to the surge in sales. Black Friday has since become the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States. In 2022, consumers spent an estimated $9.12 billion on Black Friday.

And Cyber Monday was created in 2005 by retailers in an effort to extend the Black Friday shopping bonanza to the online world. The term quickly caught on, and Cyber Monday has become the biggest online shopping day of the year. In 2022, consumers spent an estimated $11.9 billion on Cyber Monday.

Black Friday & Cyber Monday Tech Deals

November 21, 2023

Gear up for the epic tech shopping spree with Black Friday & Cyber Monday Tech Deals

Get ready for a massive wave of tech, web and software deals. We’ll be updating this page with the hottest offers between Black Friday and CyberMonday so you can score awesome discounts on the tech you crave, by the way a good tip is to check the products you like or were thinking of during the year, there is a good chance that they might have a discount for Black Friday, sometimes when i see a great product but i think its too expensive or im unsure if its worth it, i save and then check on Black Friday, you never know! ;D

Also I’m focused more on online tech deals, perfect for the dev community, for online entrepreneurs, for web developers, for designers, for your online business and not so much electronics like laptops and phones, not that there aren’t good deals on those out there, but its just not my focus, and there are plenty to choose from, i’ve made a custom search engine below to help you find all kinds of Black Friday deals!

Bookmark this page and check back often, i’ll post new deals always on top! Also please note that some of these deals might continue beyond Black Friday, might finish before Cyber Monday or the terms of the deal might change during Black Friday.

Black Friday & Cyber Monday Tech Deals

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How Reddit Got into Trouble

News June 15, 2023

Reddit ohhh Reddit the “community”-driven social media site, is currently facing a major crisis as the “community” grows increasingly dissatisfied with recent decisions, leading to a strike by moderators and an exodus of key users. This situation kinda highlights a crucial error made by a lot of social networks, they think that users seek only the services, but in fact they mostly seek connections and a kind of sense of community, and erecting barriers to access ultimately erodes what users want and need.

I think the key factors for Reddit’s success were that they capitalized on other similar platforms shooting themselves in the foot (I’m looking at you, Digg), letting each topic create a community around it and let each community grow, and finally being somewhat open with an easy API and letting anyone use the site in creative ways, something that other platforms have been cracking down on for years, like Facebook, Twitter and such.

But here lies the crux, if the users and mods are the ones really creating the content and moderating it, then the only thing Reddit needs to-do is keep the platform running and run ads and account subscriptions, which seems like an ideal setup.

Unfortunately, it seems that Reddit like other networks before it, wants more, and as slowly been creating new revenue streams, creating more schemes, things like pushing web users to its kind of lousy app, app only features, having a new slow design that favors Tiktok like mindless media consumption instead of community consumption and interaction, not implementing or supporting the mods, pushing gimmicks like NFT’s and community awards, creating restrictions and paths to make it increasingly harder for mods to manage and grow their communities, and pushing the users to a more “reddit is the main page” instead of “reddit is all about the communities”.

Also, the current path Reddit is heading is that instead of 100,000 small interesting and quirky communities, they really just want and promote 100 super large communities, with never-ending posts of boobs, cute and fails, If it sounds like TikTok, Facebook, or Instagram, you wouldn’t be wrong, and that’s… a shame, more of the same is boring, it might make money, but it has no future; they will be just another one..

And even after all of this, Reddit is still apparently in the red, I think it’s in the red because it’s badly managed, it wants to run like a Facebook with huge budgets and staff working on a billion unrelated things, a network like Reddit can and should run more slim and could be profitable with little adjustments and by cooperating more heavily with its mods and communities, just look at Wikipedia!

But no… Reddit and its CEO Steve Huffman view Reddit as a cash cow that has just not been milked enough, so they decide to turn the free API to an extremely expensive and restricted API so as to kill all competition and fuck what the communities need or want, its literally another one of those killed by a thousand cuts, when this time he just cuts a little bit too deep and the cow decides to give a nice kick, so what happens…

Thousands of Reddit moderators initiated a blackout, blocking access to over 8,000 subreddits (including my community). With several demands, like the implementation of accessibility features for blind users and revisions to the API to support third-party apps, both in price and restrictions.

And this puts Reddit in a bind, since the value of Reddit is its constant flow of content, its communities, and its enormous database of information, so if channels go dark, all of this disappears, if Reddit pushes forward and channels start deleting, then this treasure trove starts depreciating even more, if Reddit decides to kick its mods and force open channels, then who is going to manage and moderate? Is Reddit who is the red going to be able to afford to pay moderators? Naaaa, it will turn into a dumpster fire…

This, of course, is not what everyone wants, mods are weaponizing their channels and communities to try and pressure the company, but the company that was supposed to be all about community doesn’t seem to care, and this opens up a bad precedent of communities not trusting the platform, it’s all about the money and fuck the ethics, so here we are in a tug-o-war with some channels open, some channels restricted, and some channels private, all waiting to see who folds first.

I’m writing this because I’m also Reddit user and a mod, so my views are not exactly the mainstream, but alas my channels are closed for the time being, so I have some skin in the game, but I’ve been burned before, one of the reasons that 90% of what I manage is 100% under my control is because I’ve been rugged pulled before, several times, I’ve joined great platforms with awesome features and I’ve sometimes spent years making something amazing for that platform to eventually see it all just crashing down, my work erased, decide that I should pay 100x more or change the rules for no reason, and most of the time there is no recourse for me, it’s a deep breath and move on, so this time with Reddit I’ve decided to make a stand, it’s a small stand but its one nevertheless because what makes Reddit strong it’s the communities and mods and if these turn on Reddit then the cow dies… a slow painful death…

Contacts

May 18, 2023

Well the easiest way to contact us is using the comment section, we are also available through the S2R Contacts Section, we will get back at you as soon as possible ^_^

Bye Blogger Hello WP!

News May 10, 2023 1 Comment

This isn’t so much why am i using WordPress, because by now im a power user, about half of my sites use WordPress in one way or another its still a great platform.

No… this is more about Blogger, the Google owned blogging platform was always one of my favourites, its simple and super fast, especially for a plain site/placeholder and or blog it has served me well and its has slowly been updated.

However its getting worst and worst with time, it keeps restricting or worst removing old posts, because a silly image is considered adult, because i link to a site that Google doesn’t approve, because of something i said, why?

And its not on one go, its like every couple of months it scans the site and deems what is approved and what isn’t and for EACH post i have to make a claim that its ok and they are brought back, if Google does this to its own blogging service, what else are they doing to search, but i don’t care, if Google wants to fuck around, go for it, they can even remove my site from their index, i…. don’t…. care.

So moving what little i still had from Blogger to WP, I was considering Tumblr but that also seems like its gone down the drain, so self host is best, at least you don’t have your overlord landlord overbearing and deciding what they deem right or wrong… and that can only make me happy! ;D

Why should you use Hostcult Hosting?

May 10, 2023

Hostcult gives you cheap and reliable hosting, the same we use for S2R websites, we cut on the cost on support and other niceties and pass those savings to you, we make sure the servers run fast and stable, on a standard LAMP package, if the server is down for any reason we will fix it, you can request to be moved to a new server and

1) You Get Cheap Hosting
What? Why is that a feature? we cut on support and some other niceties, but we pass those savings to you, so you get awesome hosting with a low price its win+win if you have some experience with hosting you wont need support anyway.

2) We give you Performance
Be sure that the servers will always run at peak performance, we host our own sites on them, so we make sure to keep them running fast, if for any reason you are not happy, we will move you to another server in another location, no questions asked!

3) Get Rock Solid Hosting
While we know what we are doing, we only use hardware and services from trusted providers, no shady companies and datacenters, so you get a double layer of protection, even for any reason we aren’t available, the datacenter will make sure the servers are running smoothly.

4) No Support Hosting
We wont hold your hand, and 99% of hosting related questions you can get answers with google or our help page, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t anyone on the other side, if you send a proper request we will answer back (like a request to move servers, proper problem on the hosting stack, a request to update something).

Humm i’ll give a quick insight on both Hostcult and S2R

Hostcult History
Hummm Hoscult was basically the placeholder domain for S2R hosting, it still is, using multiple sub-domains to point to servers and DNS nameservers, but besides that it wasn’t used for anything else, we used to sell hosting, but have since move on to only hosting S2R projects, so after a while we created a blog on Hostcult around hosting and S2R news, we have since started again offering hosting with a twist.

S2R
S2R or the Send to Receive Organization is dedicated to create awesome sites, that’s pretty much it ^_^

My Top 8 Best OpenSource Software

Tech May 13, 2020

Hey im doing a top something post hehehe, well these are some of the opensource software i use to build websites, its not all i use, and i don’t use just opensource software, but as of now these are the ones i use more often, and most likely will use something else only if they don’t fit the bill, this of course excludes awesome stuff like Linux or , so here is my list:

1 – WordPress
The almighty god of all that is blogging, wordpress has grown a lot over the years, but unlike projects/software like firefox, openoffice/libreoffice, pidgin, gimp… they haven’t really had a bad run or started to deteriorate a bit, its been constant good improvements, and even quirky issues are normally resolved without much of a hitch, its most powerful feature is the way it is structured although now it has automatic updates, its core is completly independent from the design or the content, upgrading manually 99% of the time envolves just switching the code, the second best thing is the plugin system that is also independ from the core, turning a bad plugin off is just a question of renaming the plugin folder, these and the almost infinite range of functions you can add make wordpress the number 1.

2 – Zenphoto
Also known as the worst themed gallery software, i really can never get myself to use any of their themes, they seldom are updated and the ones that are officially supported are kinda lame-o, but who cares, their themes are remarkably simple to build, but the best feature of zenphoto is how automated it is, you dont need flash uploaders or running scripts to create thumbnails or do any kind of weird jumps and hoops to upload your photos, nope, you just upload them anywhere you want it to the album folders, and if its a new folder zenphoto will create a new album if its a new picture, the zenphoto will add it to the album, that simple, and guess what, thats what i want with a gallery!

3 – VestaCP
Ahh VestaCP you have a bit of a bad rep, but i tell you this, between all the opensource hosting panels software, i kinda have the impression that you are the only one that cares what the users want, maybe you and KloxoMR, don’t get me wrong webmin/virtualmin and the rest are all pretty good, but for some its just a secondary product or just a layer for a LAMP stack, but with VestaCP although i wouldnt say they are on the cutting edge, they do provide a nice clean easy product that at least is growing to a direction i approve, like apache with nginx proxy ^_^

4 – MyBB
Its what forum software should be, its light, its expandable its simple to use but still full featured! I wish i used more, now i dont have that much forum sites, but the only one i have was moved from SMF > PHPBB > BPRESS > MYBB and now i think it is in its rightfull home, great software.

5 – Tiny Tiny RSS
Awesome opensource alternative to the much dead Google Reader, its light fast and simple to use, its great if you want to manage your own stuff.

6 – Drupal
The ten pound mamoth of the bunch is drupal, although this somewhat popular CMS lacks in extensability/backwards compatibility/easyness it more than makes up for it with the ability to do anything! want a social network… BANG! done! want a voting site, oh wait no a voting site with flying eagles that shoot videos and then convert them to pictures of your reaction with your webcam, well im not sure… but if any CMS can Drupal can, so i normally use it when wordpress isn’t good enough or i want to create something really unique.

7 – Vanilla
I wanted to love it, but although its layout and features are excellent one thing or another have made me skip vanilla or quit on vanilla, still it doesn’t change the fact that its pretty good and works pretty good.

8 – Pydio
Its a file manager/file sync, I’ve been testing it out as an alternative to dropbox, its great and much lighter and faster than say owncloud, its a great piece of software and its not higher on the list cause i haven’t been using it for that long time to say its the best ever!

Dreamhost Hosting Review

Reviews March 17, 2018

If you don’t know who Dreamhost are, just write Dreamhost on Google 😀 they are one of the largest hosts nowadays and up until recently I was a big fan and a client for over 10 years, wow! 10 YEARS! So as you all know i tend to only review hosta i stopped using, so why have i left Dreamhost?

First lets start with some history, for a while Dreamhost was the home of a bit of weirdly offbeat hosting, their hosting setup was unique, their culture was unique, their services were unique, also it was one of those hosts that gave you freedom, even when you screwed something over or abused some of the services or just didn’t have your wordpress well setup they were lenient and most of the times helpful, it wasn’t about oh its your fault or i cant do anything, it was a matter of helping you out even if it was your fault, their hosting was weird but cool, you never cared about how much space you were using or resources cause it just worked!

And from a very affordable price you had a ton of extras to play with it was a playground feel and something very unique on the hosting industry, it reminds me of when Gmail started, you just had so much to work with now, even with kinks you always forgave cause… well lets just say it… Dreamhost was awesome!

And although i had move most of my sites and apps to vps/cloud/dedicated hosting, i still was very happy with my Dreamhost account!

Was? Oh yeah since about 2 years ago, they changed and a lot and besides the culture part… well it was fun but its not the essential, the change was in their network and features, the moved from a clustered type of hosting where i have to say it had the occasional downtime but overall it was fantastic speed and resources to a plain basic shared hosting setup one that is very stifled on resources, a hosting account that at its max had 20+ sites all running a lot of traffic, including a buddypress social network and a forum, now cant handle 2 wordpress sites at the same time without giving 503 errors.

Now compare that with a test vps i have that also has 2 pretty new wordpress sites but getting there, this vps is KVM with 256mb of Ram and 1vcpu, is it awesome, no? but after a well setup (nginx/apache/mariadb) its running those 2 sites like butter its almost native speed, while on Dreamhost you basically traded that slight instability for basic performance, those 2 sites load slowly and i guess any more php sites and my account would die, by the way i was paying 7$ a month on Dreamhost and i pay 1$ a month on Atlantic.net and altough Dreamhost “gives more” like control panel, backups, the most important part, the hosting is pretty weak!

The fact is that shared hosting on Dreamhost is dead, they want people to move up to VPS, to their Cloud Offerings, to their Specific WordPress Offerings or Dedicated, they went were all the other hosting companies have been going since… well forever! They give you a great offer on shared hosting, but the shared hosting is so restrictive that any usage above a very low margin will probably need to upgrade, thats fine, but that wasnt the Dreamhost I sign up for!

Dreamhost could easily put nginx in front of apache, or just tweak their shared hosting to be as fast and streamlined as possible but they of course have no incentive for that, when you sign up for their vps you can do that yourself so they can do it, it reminds a bit of my issues with webfaction and their weird limitations…

Also i tried 2 times their VPS platform, the first time was a bust well mostly because their shared hosting was still in the old platform so it was literally moving to something worst with more limitations in everything, the second time around it was better but for that price and performance i expected a big leap from the shared hosting, i was using the shared mysql but than again why would i need to pay for vps and then for vps mysql, its just plain not good.

I also asked to be moved in the last 6 months to another datacenter and they did it, but nothing changed, still plain boring performance and hosting, this wasnt a easy decision i really liked Dreamhost, my kind of hosting, but they arent anymore, and so i move to bigger and better things, so to finalize this… yeah i left and im not going back, and sorry to say that ill probably also pass on their cloud offerings, burn me once… ok stopping the rant >_< sorry sorry, here is a resume 😛

Dreamhost Strong Points

Awesome Control Panel
Basic Hosting Feature Set
The Shared Hosting Price is Alright
Good Network

Dreamhost Weak Points

Shared and VPS Hosting has Weak Performance
Shared Hosting Increased its Limits
The VPS Hosting Price is Expensive
Lost Some Extra Features
Its Price point has lost Value (You dont get the same bang for buck you once got)
Lost part of its Nerdy/Tech Culture and Charm
Uncertainty Regarding New Features (Adding then removing features)