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Just submitted an article with 10 tips for speeding up webpages to Cyberwurx:

This is an impatient net society as netizens crave more bandwidth. It seems logical to think that the hosting company are the primary people to contact when pages load slowly, but there are actually a lot of things that we, as webmasters, can do first and foremost to make sure that our web pages load faster before contacting the hosting company. Sometimes very small changes we make with our habits as webmasters can make huge impacts in the speed of which our web pages load particularly in the content of the pages, the compression and third party programs being accessed/used. Today I’m going to detail some specific items below that will help speed up web pages…

Everything from writing your own HTML, optimizing images all the way to the more advanced concepts of employing caching is discussed.

Happy coding to you!

Ever been traversing the web and see something like this:

Warning: mysql_connect(): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2) in /home/ourmedia/htdocs/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 31
Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2)

This usually means the MySQL database server is not running and needs to be restarted. How to fix via SSH/telnet so that when the machine reboots, it automatically starts MySQL?

E-gineer provides step-by-step instructions for setting this up on a Red Hat box. They also have general startup instructions here.