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Comment on Rank using an anchor text keyword matrix by Richard

Richard — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:48:54 +0000

Ed,

Yes, please have a look at my sitemap for more posts.

If you would like me to write more about a specific topic, let me know.

- Richard

Comment on Rank using an anchor text keyword matrix by Ed - Michigan

Ed - Michigan — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:51:34 +0000

Wow Richard,
I needed to read your post more than once to get it.
Do you have more in past blogs that refer to this subject
and your comments to Elliots Blog?

thanks Ed - Michigan

Comment on Domainers can learn from Beijing Olympics by Germ

Germ — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:20:25 +0000

Completely.

As I often say, domainers are all too often just as guilty of not “getting it” as the end users they love to gripe about.

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Kirin123 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:46:47 +0000

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Comment on How to fix Bido by Eliot

Eliot — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:04:49 +0000

Thanks for the advice Richard - much appreciated!

Comment on How to fix Bido by Richard

Richard — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:15:43 +0000

Elliot,

There are some companies that offer shared hosting from a cluster. I believe that Media Temple is one of them. Although I have not used their service, I see that it is very popular.

If you want to stick with your own dedicated solution, then your hosting company will need to supply you with 2 web servers and 2 database servers and connect them to separate load balancing switches. It most cases, your hosting company can do the setup and config of the cluster for you and all you need to do is add your content.

Comment on How to fix Bido by Eliot

Eliot — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:55:55 +0000

Hi Richard,

For someone dipping their toes in the cluster waters for the first time, can you advise on a good economical initial step for a site moving from a dedicated server or VPS to a cluster?

Comment on How to fix Bido by Richard

Richard — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:34:47 +0000

Jeff,

Thank you for the follow up. Yes, I noticed that Bido is making calls to dnzoom which made me think that you could have load problems all over the place with a setup like that.

And if you are running your front end in one location and backend in another, that will also be causing you speed and load problems.

I hope you end up setting up a nice stable cluster just for Bido, and don’t forget a backup site in a second location !

- Richard

Comment on How to fix Bido by JeffB

JeffB — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:24:18 +0000

Hi,

Nice writeup on clusting. Assista is running on a cluster. Bido.com on the other hand is not N+1 setup(Many internal reasons for that). It’s a delicate balance to be running in concert to a stable dnzoom architecture. Every decision is based off not changing the ‘current setup’ which has created bottle necks in the system design of bido. Once you reach a limit where business is affected you just have to take a step back and decide, and we have decided we need to move to a different architecture that is going to benefit Bido users. So don’t be counting us off You have to take a step back in order to leap!

JeffB