Category Archives: Technology

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Cheap And Easy Cloud Cracking On The Way

Ama­zon recently announced a new instance type for their EC2 cloud ser­vice that they call the Clus­ter GPU which has an impres­sive spec: 22 GB of mem­ory 33.5 EC2 Com­pute Units (2 x Intel Xeon X5570, quad-core “Nehalem” archi­tec­ture) 2 x NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi” M2050 GPUs 1690 GB of instance stor­age 64-bit plat­form I/O Per­for­mance: Very …

November 27, 2010 – 1:15 am | By Jeremy Brown | Posted in Blog Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Do Cameroonian ISPs care about their customers?

I wanted to inves­ti­gate the typ­i­cal expe­ri­ence of a Cameroon­ian Inter­net user while vis­it­ing the web­sites of the major Inter­net Ser­vice Providers (ISPs). I fig­ured that the time and energy a com­pany puts into opti­mis­ing their web­site for slow con­nec­tions might indi­cate how focused they are as a com­pany on their cus­tomers. After all, if …

November 19, 2010 – 9:10 pm | By Jeremy Brown | Posted in Africa, Blog Posts, Cameroon, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

How to Optimise WordPress Performance for Search Ranking

Google says that they use the per­for­mance of your web­site as part of your search rank­ing: You may have heard that here at Google we’re obsessed with speed, in our prod­ucts and on the web. As part of that effort, today we’re includ­ing a new sig­nal in our search rank­ing algo­rithms: web­site speed. Site speed reflects how …

November 17, 2010 – 8:00 am | By Jeremy Brown | Posted in Blog Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)