In an effort to do less and offer more, I have continued on a quest to make WordPress run faster on my server. Hopefully it’s a bit snappier. First I installed WP Super Cache which seems to help quite a bit. The idea is it caches dynamic content into a static html page to be served up to visitors and totally bypassing mySql and php in the process. Of course it comes with it’s own caveats but does seem to help. Second I tweaked Apache’s config file to process more http requests at a time. This also seemed to help some. At any rate … the quest goes on.
So, being lazy and such I decided to put up a new site using wordpress. Nice for management, etc. but for some reason which I cannot ascertain it’s very slow. It’s on its own server but apparently something with WordPress is borked. Anyway I figured I’d do this since my work with the HandBrake project has led me to things which do not really fit there but I figure someone might find useful. Most of this will probably have to do with video encoding ( mostly mac based ) and using video media on Apple products. Right now I am mostly running HandBrake encodes on the AppleTV.
One thing I have found useful is this hardware hack for the AppleTV. The AppleTV eSata Mod is a post I wrote on the HandBrake forums illustrating how I modded the “ATV” to use an external eSata drive to increase its local storage up to 1 TB and above. More on that to come. As well, since I got tired of using the OSX terminal to clone the atv drive, I wrote a mac osx gui to clone you’re AppleTV hard drive to a new, possibly larger hard drive since I am notoriously cli-phobic. More on that later as well. As a developer of the HandBrake MacGui (macintosh graphical user interface) I will try to elaborate here on why it is the way it is … from time to time.
Cheers.