Daylight saving time and post timestamp
Is your blog not in sync with your local time setting? Here is the instruction on how to configure daylight saving time on your blog. Click on the Settings tab and that will bring you to the General Settings page Scroll down until you see Timezone, you will see that it is set to UTC […]
CWL Maintenance
CWL will be undergoing maintenance on the following dates: · Saturday 24 Jan ’09, 8:00am-8:30am · Sunday 01 Feb ’09, 6:00am-10:00am During this time CWL users will be able to access CWL integrated applications with their CWL accounts, however users will not be able to create new CWL accounts or edit existing CWL accounts.
CWL Login Issues
For the last three days UBC Blogs along with other UBC services relying on CWL have been experiencing login issues. IT services is attempting to resolve these issues.
UBC Blogs will be down for a server move Monday Dec 22.
On Monday December 22, 2008 UBC Blogs will be down for a maximum of 2 hours starting at 6:30AM.
UBC Blogs updated to 2.6.5
2.6.5 contains three small fixes. See the WordPress.org announcement post for full details. WP Super Cache was also updated.
UBC Blogs now protected by Akismet Antispam Software
UBC Blogs now has Akismet Antispam software enabled. Users will notice a new link in the Comments section of the blog called “Akismet Spam”. Messages that are deemed to be potential spam threats are sent to the “Akismet Spam” area for moderation. Themes will now have a “Spam prevention powered by Akismet” placed in the […]
UBC Blogs updated to 2.6.3
UBC Blogs has been updated to the latest version of WordPress MU. Changes in 2.6.3: – minor security fix no new features.
MySQL Query Caching Part II
For those wondering how to do query caching here is a quick run down. 1) Edit the MySQL conf at the following to /etc/my.cnf for a 26M query cache use: query_cache_type = 1 query_cache_size = 26214400 2) Restart MySQL /etc/init.d/mysqld restart 3) Login to MySQL and run the following: mysql> SET GLOBAL query_cache_size = 26214400; […]
MySQL Query caching
We implemented MySQL query caching yesturday and the results are quite impressive. ab -n 100 -c 40 https://blogs.ubc.ca/blog/category/community/latest-posts/ Requests per second: 325.78 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 122.782 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 3.070 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) We now have PHP APC opcode caching, content caching with WP-Super-Cache, content compression with mod_deflate […]
UBC Blogs Upgraded to 2.6.2
UBC Blogs has been updated to the latest version of WordPress MU. Changes in 2.6.2: – minor bug fixes no new features. We implemented MySQL query caching some might notice a slight improvement in speed.