Tag: Howto

Improving Magento Speed & Performance With MySQL Query Cache

25 May 2008 by Rick

Improving Magento performance is at the top of the list for most professional Magento developers. There’s no doubt that enhancing the speed at which Magento performs can only be good for business.

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Magento Hosting

10 November 2007 by Kyle

I’ve been reading a lot of posts on the Magento forum about installation troubles, specifically with mod_rewrite (htaccess) and the MySQLi and PDO_MySQL extensions for PHP. As mentioned in our Magento installation guide, Crucial’s Split-Shared hosting is fully compatible with Magento.

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Magento Commerce Install Guide

08 November 2007 by Kyle

This is a step-by-step tutorial on installing Magento Commerce on one of our Split-Shared hosting accounts. I was recently introduced to Magento in a pre-sales chat. Up until that chat, I had never heard about it, but decided to check it out.

I’ve personally used and recommended osCommerce whenever someone asked about a good shopping cart program, but I have to admit, this is by far the best open source application out there.

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Affiliates: Monetize Your Web Traffic

31 October 2007 by Rick

Affiliate sales are one the most effective ways to make money on the Internet. Unfortunately, many affiliates take for granted the success of others and don’t fully understand exactly what it takes to be successful in making affiliate sales. Chances are good you have a website and you’re trying to monetize website traffic. Affiliate sales are a great way to earn an income and I’m going to show you just how easy it can be and give you solid examples to build a fortune upon.

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Nagios Howto: Using NRPE To Monitor Remote Services

20 February 2007 by Rick

This whitepaper is a continuation to the previously article, Nagios Howto: Notification Escalations, EventHandlers & Remote Service Monitoring With NRPE.

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Nagios Howto: Notification Escalations, EventHandlers & Remote Service Monitoring With NRPE

18 February 2007 by Rick

From the Nagios website, "Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program," however, this description is not as accurate as it could be. In it’s most basic state of configuration, Nagios is a fantastic tool for locally monitoring network devices and services.

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