Troubleshooting page load speed, part 45…
For the record, I’m painfully aware that the page load times on several of my sites have been, well, unbearable as of late! Admittedly it’s a problem that...
Tag: geek stuff
A special place in Gmail for advertising (that I actually want)…
I like pizza, but I don’t need coupons for it every single day. I noted the other day how it kind of bugs me to get promotional emails from likes of Pizza...
A Verizon FiOS Upgrade Update … of Sorts
So here we are, 10 days after my rant about issues with getting my FiOS Internet speed upgrade. The good news is, I’m officially running at the 150 Mbps t...
Digging deeper into server issues…
I think I’m making progress, albeit in a number of avenues that I wasn’t necessarily expecting! One thing standing out that is seeming to be more of...
A Look at Web Page Performance…
I’ve been experimenting around with performance tuning on my web server the last couple of days to try and work out some bizarre, high usage issues when (...
Speed Testing via the Linux Command Line
Last night I relocated a bunch of computer stuff – namely my home server and router – to our bedroom closet, which in a positive way got it more up ...
Plex Streaming 101
For Plex proponents like myself, this video is a nice, simple walkthrough of the ways that Plex Media Server streams media to different devices both in your hom...
Anything you have to say has already been said…
So I stumbled across this website called the Library of Babel last night, and it’s kind of freaky. Essentially they’ve created an algorithm that has...
It takes an awesome wife to let you run cat6 overhead through her kitchen…
Just did an experiment because Plex videos have been buffering more than usual, especially some new home videos that I added tonight from our phones, so I ran a...
Home Tech Talk, Part 2
So picking up where I left off last night, I think these are going to be my next points of focus around the house… Run Cat6 to the Living Room and Bedroom...