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Now this blog is hosted in a different server, and the result is just better in terms of time response. I came from an average load time of 3,5s to an average load time of 2,15s. The first 2 requests took 1,3s; mainly the web browser waiting for response from server (yellow line). Now this … Read more
Imagine you are the HR lead for a big organization. You know Linkedin is the more used professional network used by the employees. This network manages candidates appliances for other companies (mainly your competitors). And then, you want to know: how many of your employees are applying to jobs in other companies, which countries shows … Read more
During the NBA final series there has been a move which has been mentioned so much in the forums and on the TV, it is the Hammer, which belongs to the Zipper Series of the Spurs playbook. This is really aesthetically pleasant move; and very difficult to implement, by the way.
I continue trying to understand how hosting companies earn money with their services. I cannot calculate the TCO per server or per user, but I can do some figures to calculate the revenue per server: I have the prices on the web page and I can know the number of customers for a given server … Read more
This Gartner article talks about something I have been commenting with some colleagues several times: the customers are spending less and less money. IT is an industry that destroys itself, and some times or some events provokes the expenditure to be reduced. What the article provides are details and figures that explains the trend. It reduces … Read more
Sometimes I think about how much “wondering” I am in a given moment, how ready I am for packing and going to any other place. Sometimes I see my self as an old guy who misses the home even when I still have not done any move to anyplace. Some other times I see myself … Read more
I do not you, but I have still not found a clear standard way to meaure the E2E time response of a web hosting provider for a prestashop store. I know my shared hosting has a slow First Time response, but where to go? On WordPress someone created a plugin to measure the CPU speed, … Read more
This is the torture machine that punishes me: Only 0,54% of the visits do a purchase, and this is today, that % is decreasing every day.
When you are doing a hosting benchmark there are thousand common parameters all providers suggest to compete against others (size, bandwidth, #databases… ). The main secret of the providers is the speed. All providers hide this information: CPU speed and number of people hosted on the same server. These 2 parameters can vary, so at … Read more
Time response continues causing me headaches, but I’m discovering causes and differentiating the causes, so I’m progressing in the right direction. The situation now is that pictures are compressed and with a light weight, no code faults, reduced CSS and JS files, CDN activated, cache, etc. It depends on the pictures of the main screen … Read more