How about Roadkil.net’s Disk Speed? A nice little program if your hard drive test isn’t listed under the device manager.
Daily Archives: October 8, 2012
Security Checklist 2 – Hosting and Server Setup
Shared server risks If you are on a tight budget and your site does not process highly confidential data, you can probably get by with a shared server, but you must understand the unavoidable risks. Most of the tips listed below are appropriate for securing sites on shared server environments.
Three easy ways to optimize your MySQL queries
This article is also available as a TechRepublic download, which includes the code listings in a more manageable text file format.
10 Tips for Optimizing MySQL Queries
Justin Silverton at Jaslabs has a supposed list of 10 tips for optimizing MySQL queries. I couldn’t read this and let it stand because this list is really, really bad. Some guy named Mike noted this, too. So in this entry I’ll do two things: first, I’ll explain why his list is bad; second, I’ll …