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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of May
This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps’ fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one of 600k+ subscribers. But how can we forget to say a Great Thanks to our valued sponsors who helped us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of May, 2010 as well.
Do you want to get noticed? Advertise with us and feel the difference!
Smashing Apps always welcome new sponsors for our large and diversified visitor base from more than 188 countries. They are designers, developers, internet marketers, bloggers, IT entrepreneurs, etc. You will get noticed by the thousands of visitors every day. Moreover, a monthly recognition post to thank you as our valued sponsors. Are you really interested? Click here to contact us or see advertisement section for more information on advertising details.
Our valued sponsors were:
AN Hosting hosts more blogs than anyone else, hosting tens of thousands of independent blogs. With plenty of disk space, huge data transfer and the ability to host 20 sites on one account. You will get relax with them. We are thankful to them for hosting our website and to make us free of tension.
Wix.com is a Flash website builder, built to create a simple way for everybody to build and design Flash website. Create a free website like whether it’s business or personal, music or art. Wix’s Flash website builder is simple to use with a “drag and drop” builder and is the complete solution to publish & promote your Flash website like a pro.
FireHost Advanced Web Security protects companies of all sizes with levels of security not found in 99% of hosting companies. We take security seriously and specialize in protecting online retailers, healthcare organizations, and high-traffic websites with mission critical applications, data and information assets.
Intervals is web-based project management software that marries time tracking and task management in a collaborative online space with powerful reporting.
UPrinting.com is a leading online printing company that provides high quality printing at the most affordable prices.
ThemeForest is a website from where you can buy and sell site templates and themes to skin popular CMS products like WordPress Drupal and Joomla. Files are priced from just five dollars, based on the complexity, quality and use of the file. Anyone is free to signup for an account and begin trading or purchasing files.
Formstack provides organizations with an easy way to build web forms that integrate with their websites without any programming, software, or special skills. Once you have started collecting data with Formstack, you can manage and edit the information online in our database, share data with others in your organization, and even use our API for greater control of the data and integration with your internal database.
FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.
Premier Survey is the users’ choice for free online survey management. This system, a powerful self-service application developed on the concept of Software As A Service (SAAS) is designed to minimize cost and maximize ease of use.
We are also thankful to those advertisers who purchased favicon ads.
Do you want us to say Thank You in this special way? So help us to help you!
You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising at SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to
- direct marketing
- sponsored giveaways and contest for Smashing Apps readers
- releasing a free font, a WordPress-theme, some wallpapers, an icon-set or anything else
Congratulations To The Winners Of Magic Members WordPress Plugin
Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which you could Take A Chance To Win Single License Of Magic Members WordPress Plugin. We ran the MySql random query and selected these commenter to give them Single License Of Magic Members WordPress Plugin.
Magic Members is a premium WordPress Membership Plugin that turn your WordPress blog into a powerful, fully automated membership site. This WordPress membership plugin, takes your membership site to the next level with the ability to control access to different levels across your membership site. The ability to offer different membership access to different areas, such as a download area, increases value for your membership levels.
In addition to the different levels of membership, you are also able to set different membership billing options with an unlimited amount of subscriptions. Whether you want to charge daily, weekly, monthly or even annually, you will have complete control in how your members pay for their subscriptions. For example, ‘Standard’ memberships may pay monthly, while ‘Premium’ memberships pay annually.
You may expect to pay $2,000 – $3,000 for such an easy to use, full-featured membership application that does not require you to switch to a different system. Magic Members is a fully integrated WordPress membership and subscription plug-in that quickly takes your blog from an ordinary blog to a powerful membership site.
Congratulations to all the winners from SmashingApps.Com. All of the winners will be contacted in few days. If you are not winner at this time so please be patient and keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed, you can follow us on twitter because we are coming up with another new great contest in couple of days.
Thanks to Magic Members for sponsoring this wonderful contest at Smashing Apps.
If you want to conduct any contest at Smashing Apps just contact us and send us all the details.
Congratulations To The Winners Of Free Accounts With $30 Credit From DepositPhotos
Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which you could Take A Chance To Win Free Accounts With $30 Credit From DepositPhotos. We ran the MySql random query and selected these commenter to give them Single User licenses of DepositPhotos.com free accounts.
- SE7EN
- MyGB
- Silvio
- Steve Robillard
- Boa
- Pablo Lara H
- Jaryre
- NiceTake
- Kleber Carbo
- TechZoomIn
- Paul
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DepositPhotos.com is one of the best resource for buying and selling Royalty-free photographs and vector images. Their vast library of imagestock coupled with wide variety of flexible purchase options makes them most convenient and profitable tool for designers, artists and photographers.
Whether you’re a designer looking to buy images for a project or a photographer selling your stock, They make working with DepositPhotos.com as easy as possible. Their low, low pricing and flexible purchase plans make it easy to buy exactly what you need instead of just what you can afford, and their generous commission structures give their contributors enormous earning potential.
Looking for images containing food, beverages or tableware? That’s easy – just start in the “Food & Drink” category. Need an image related to an office environment, work or careers? Visit our “Business & Finance” Category. Maybe you’re looking for an image of a ring, necklace or bracelet. Then, start your search in the “Jewelry & Gems” category. With more than three dozen categories to choose from, you’ll never have trouble finding the perfect image, no matter what you’re looking for!
Congratulations to all the winners from SmashingApps.Com. All of the winners will be contacted in few days. If you are not winner at this time so please be patient and keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed, you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well because we are coming up with another new great contest earlier next week.
Thanks to DepositPhotos.com for sponsoring this wonderful contest at Smashing Apps.
If you want to conduct any contest at Smashing Apps just contact us and send us all the details.
Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of April
This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps’ fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one of 600k+ subscribers. But how can we forget to say a Great Thanks to our valued sponsors who helped us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of April, 2010 as well.
Do you want to get noticed? Advertise with us and feel the difference!
Smashing Apps always welcome new sponsors for our large and diversified visitor base from more than 188 countries. They are designers, developers, internet marketers, bloggers, IT entrepreneurs, etc. You will get noticed by the thousands of visitors every day. Moreover, a monthly recognition post to thank you as our valued sponsors. Are you really interested? Click here to contact us or see advertisement section for more information on advertising details.
Our valued sponsors were:
AN Hosting hosts more blogs than anyone else, hosting tens of thousands of independent blogs. With plenty of disk space, huge data transfer and the ability to host 20 sites on one account. You will get relax with them. We are thankful to them for hosting our website and to make us free of tension.
Wix.com is a Flash website builder, built to create a simple way for everybody to build and design Flash website. Create a free website like whether it’s business or personal, music or art. Wix’s Flash website builder is simple to use with a “drag and drop” builder and is the complete solution to publish & promote your Flash website like a pro.
Newtek Web Hosting is an industry leading provider of hosting and business solutions, servicing developers, resellers, and business owners around the globe.
FireHost Advanced Web Security protects companies of all sizes with levels of security not found in 99% of hosting companies. We take security seriously and specialize in protecting online retailers, healthcare organizations, and high-traffic websites with mission critical applications, data and information assets.
UPrinting.com is a leading online printing company that provides high quality printing at the most affordable prices.
ThemeForest is a website from where you can buy and sell site templates and themes to skin popular CMS products like WordPress Drupal and Joomla. Files are priced from just five dollars, based on the complexity, quality and use of the file. Anyone is free to signup for an account and begin trading or purchasing files.
Formstack provides organizations with an easy way to build web forms that integrate with their websites without any programming, software, or special skills. Once you have started collecting data with Formstack, you can manage and edit the information online in our database, share data with others in your organization, and even use our API for greater control of the data and integration with your internal database.
FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.
Premier Survey is the users’ choice for free online survey management. This system, a powerful self-service application developed on the concept of Software As A Service (SAAS) is designed to minimize cost and maximize ease of use.
We are also thankful to those advertisers who purchased favicon ads.
Do you want us to say Thank You in this special way? So help us to help you!
You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising at SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to
- direct marketing
- sponsored giveaways and contest for Smashing Apps readers
- releasing a free font, a WordPress-theme, some wallpapers, an icon-set or anything else
Congratulations To The Winners Of SWF & FLV Player PRO
Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which you could Take A Chance To Win Personal License Of SWF & FLV Player PRO. We ran the MySql random query and selected these commenter to give them Single User licenses of SWF & FLV Player.
SWF & FLV Player PRO is a smart Flash Player, enriched with numerous options and controls for viewing and managing Flash movies and videos. One of the main benefits of SWF & FLV Player PRO is the ability to save Flash Animation from the web directly to your computer. So if you want to download and save your favorite videos from such sites as Youtube, Matacafe, Google Video or other, SWF & FLV Player by Eltima is just what you need.
More than that, with SWF & FLV Player PRO you can make a screenshot of the favorite moment and even convert the whole movie into the series of screenshots.
Last but not least, SWF & FLV Player PRO allows playback of SWF/FLV files in full-screen mode and feel yourself at cinema while being at home with your cup of coffee.
Congratulations to all the winners from SmashingApps.Com. All of the winners will be contacted. If you are not winner at this time so please be patient and keep visiting here or subscribe to our rss feed, you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well. because we are coming up with another new great contest earlier next week.
Thanks to Eltima Software for sponsoring this wonderful contest at Smashing Apps.
If you want to conduct any contest at Smashing Apps just contact us and send us all the details.
Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of March
This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps’ fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one of 600k+ subscribers. But how can we forget to say a Great Thank You to our valued sponsors who helped us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of March, 2010 as well.
Do you want to get noticed? Advertise with us and feel the difference!
Smashing Apps always welcome new sponsors for our large and diversified visitor base from more than 188 countries. They are designers, developers, internet marketers, bloggers, IT entrepreneurs, etc. You will get noticed by the thousands of visitors every day. Moreover, a monthly recognition post to thank you as our valued sponsors. Are you really interested? Click here to contact us or see advertisement section for more information on advertising details.
Our valued sponsors were:
AN Hosting hosts more blogs than anyone else, hosting tens of thousands of independent blogs. With plenty of disk space, huge data transfer and the ability to host 20 sites on one account. You will get relax with them. We are thankful to them for hosting our website and to make us free of tension.
Wix.com is a Flash website builder, built to create a simple way for everybody to build and design Flash website. Create a free website like whether it’s business or personal, music or art. Wix’s Flash website builder is simple to use with a “drag and drop” builder and is the complete solution to publish & promote your Flash website like a pro.
Newtek Web Hosting is an industry leading provider of hosting and business solutions, servicing developers, resellers, and business owners around the globe.
UPrinting.com is a leading online printing company that provides high quality printing at the most affordable prices.
RapidxHTML is a small team of designers and developers, with a wide range of skills and experience. They know their strengths and weaknesses and how these fit into the big picture.
ThemeForest is a website from where you can buy and sell site templates and themes to skin popular CMS products like WordPress Drupal and Joomla. Files are priced from just five dollars, based on the complexity, quality and use of the file. Anyone is free to signup for an account and begin trading or purchasing files.
Intervals is web-based project management software that marries time tracking and task management in a collaborative online space with powerful reporting.
ActiveCampaign email marketing software is the leading web based email marketing software for creating, managing, and extending your email marketing & auto responder campaigns.
AdminSquare offers customizable admin templates for your application. All the templates are highly universal and easily extendable, as necessary. The templates are valid according to W3C standards. They include strictly formatted and carefully commented XHTML a CSS codes.
BannerSnack is an online tool that allows you to create flash banner ads and other types of flash content. You will be surprised to see what you can do with this powerful online banner maker: from classic animated banners to interactive flash banners, from flash headers and intros to flash microsites and CD presentations. All from scratch and without Flash programming.
Dedicated Server (DS.MY) specialize in providing services such as Dedicated server, Virtual Private Server, Co-location with premium bandwidth which is hosted at the largest ISP in South East Asia under TM.NET with superb connectivity to the world.
FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.
Premier Survey is the users’ choice for free online survey management. This system, a powerful self-service application developed on the concept of Software As A Service (SAAS) is designed to minimize cost and maximize ease of use.
We are also thankful to those advertisers who purchased favicon ads.
Do you want us to say Thank You in this special way? So help us to help you!
You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising at SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to
- direct marketing
- sponsored giveaways and contest for Smashing Apps readers
- releasing a free font, a WordPress-theme, some wallpapers, an icon-set or anything else
Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of February
This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps’ fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one of 600k+ subscribers. But how can we forget to say a Great Thank You to our valued sponsors who helped us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of February, 2010 as well.
Do you want to get noticed? Advertise with us and feel the difference!
Smashing Apps always welcome new sponsors for our large and diversified visitor base from more than 188 countries. They are designers, developers, internet marketers, bloggers, IT entrepreneurs, etc. You will get noticed by the thousands of visitors every day. Moreover, a monthly recognition post to thank you as our valued sponsors. Are you really interested? Click here to contact us or see advertisement section for more information on advertising details.
Our valued sponsors were:
AN Hosting hosts more blogs than anyone else, hosting tens of thousands of independent blogs. With plenty of disk space, huge data transfer and the ability to host 20 sites on one account. You will get relax with them. We are thankful to them for hosting our website and to make us free of tension.
Wix.com is a Flash website builder, built to create a simple way for everybody to build and design Flash website. Create a free website like whether it’s business or personal, music or art. Wix’s Flash website builder is simple to use with a “drag and drop” builder and is the complete solution to publish & promote your Flash website like a pro.
Newtek Web Hosting is an industry leading provider of hosting and business solutions, servicing developers, resellers, and business owners around the globe.
UPrinting.com is a leading online printing company that provides high quality printing at the most affordable prices.
RapidxHTML is a small team of designers and developers, with a wide range of skills and experience. They know their strengths and weaknesses and how these fit into the big picture.
ThemeForest is a website from where you can buy and sell site templates and themes to skin popular CMS products like WordPress Drupal and Joomla. Files are priced from just five dollars, based on the complexity, quality and use of the file. Anyone is free to signup for an account and begin trading or purchasing files.
PSD2HTML.com provides fast, high quality conversion of graphic Web design into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and its extensions, as well as skins / themes / templates for various engines.
FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.
Premier Survey is the users’ choice for free online survey management. This system, a powerful self-service application developed on the concept of Software As A Service (SAAS) is designed to minimize cost and maximize ease of use.
We are also thankful to those advertisers who purchased favicon ads.
Do you want us to say Thank You in this special way? So help us to help you!
You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising at SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to
- direct marketing
- sponsored giveaways and contest for Smashing Apps readers
- releasing a free font, a WordPress-theme, some wallpapers, an icon-set or anything else
Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of January
This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps’ fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one of 600k+ subscribers. But how can we forget to say a Great Thank You to our valued sponsors who helped us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of January, 2010 as well.
Do you want to get noticed? Advertise with us and feel the difference!
Smashing Apps always welcome new sponsors for our large and diversified visitor base from more than 188 countries. They are designers, developers, internet marketers, bloggers, IT entrepreneurs, etc. You will get noticed by the thousands of visitors every day. Moreover, a monthly recognition post to thank you as our valued sponsors. Are you really interested? Click here to contact us or see advertisement section for more information on advertising details.
Our valued sponsors were:
AN Hosting hosts more blogs than anyone else, hosting tens of thousands of independent blogs. With plenty of disk space, huge data transfer and the ability to host 20 sites on one account. You will get relax with them. We are thankful to them for hosting our website and to make us free of tension.
Wix.com is a Flash website builder, built to create a simple way for everybody to build and design Flash website. Create a free website like whether it’s business or personal, music or art. Wix’s Flash website builder is simple to use with a “drag and drop” builder and is the complete solution to publish & promote your Flash website like a pro.
HotCards offers services of Highest Quality, Lowest Cost Full Color Printing in the Nation. Business Cards, Postcards, Flyers and Club Cards, Posters and More.
Newtek Web Hosting is an industry leading provider of hosting and business solutions, servicing developers, resellers, and business owners around the globe.
UPrinting.com is a leading online printing company that provides high quality printing at the most affordable prices.
At Dreamstime.com, you can find a large variety of Royalty-Free stock images.
Icons-Land offers Vista style royalty-free stock icons, vector icons, emoticons and custom icon design service.
koflash.com is a flash websites gallery that features truly amazing, interactive and high quality flash websites including 3D, automobiles, games, portfolios, etc.
RapidxHTML is a small team of designers and developers, with a wide range of skills and experience. They know their strengths and weaknesses and how these fit into the big picture.
ThemeForest is a website from where you can buy and sell site templates and themes to skin popular CMS products like WordPress Drupal and Joomla. Files are priced from just five dollars, based on the complexity, quality and use of the file. Anyone is free to signup for an account and begin trading or purchasing files.
PSD2HTML.com provides fast, high quality conversion of graphic Web design into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and its extensions, as well as skins / themes / templates for various engines.
FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.
Premier Survey is the users’ choice for free online survey management. This system, a powerful self-service application developed on the concept of Software As A Service (SAAS) is designed to minimize cost and maximize ease of use.
We are also thankful to those advertisers who purchased favicon ads.
Do you want us to say Thank You in this special way? So help us to help you!
You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising at SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to
- direct marketing
- sponsored giveaways and contest for Smashing Apps readers
- releasing a free font, a WordPress-theme, some wallpapers, an icon-set or anything else
Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of December
This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps’ fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one of 600k+ subscribers. But how can we forget to say a Great Thank You to our valued sponsors who helped us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of December, 2009 as well.
Do you want to get noticed? Advertise with us and feel the difference!
Smashing Apps always welcome new sponsors for our large and diversified visitor base from more than 188 countries. They are designers, developers, internet marketers, bloggers, IT entrepreneurs, etc. You will get noticed by the thousands of visitors every day. Moreover, a monthly recognition post to thank you as our valued sponsors. Are you really interested? Click here to contact us or see advertisement section for more information on advertising details.
Our valued sponsors were:
AN Hosting hosts more blogs than anyone else, hosting tens of thousands of independent blogs. With plenty of disk space, huge data transfer and the ability to host 20 sites on one account. You will get relax with them. We are thankful to them for hosting our website and to make us free of tension.
Wix.com is a Flash website builder, built to create a simple way for everybody to build and design Flash website. Create a free website like whether it’s business or personal, music or art. Wix’s Flash website builder is simple to use with a “drag and drop” builder and is the complete solution to publish & promote your Flash website like a pro.
HotCards offers services of Highest Quality, Lowest Cost Full Color Printing in the Nation. Business Cards, Postcards, Flyers and Club Cards, Posters and More.
RapidxHTML is a small team of designers and developers, with a wide range of skills and experience. They know their strengths and weaknesses and how these fit into the big picture.
ThemeForest is a website from where you can buy and sell site templates and themes to skin popular CMS products like WordPress Drupal and Joomla. Files are priced from just five dollars, based on the complexity, quality and use of the file. Anyone is free to signup for an account and begin trading or purchasing files.
PSD2HTML.com provides fast, high quality conversion of graphic Web design into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and its extensions, as well as skins / themes / templates for various engines.
FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.
5pm can be your central location for project and task management, team collaboration, time tracking, reporting and more…
Premier Survey is the users’ choice for free online survey management. This system, a powerful self-service application developed on the concept of Software As A Service (SAAS) is designed to minimize cost and maximize ease of use.
LayerOnline provides the fastest, most reliable and secure blog/forum/web hosting at cheap prices. Our hosting is optimized for all popular scripts such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, phpBB, B2Evolution, VBulletin and SMF.
We are also thankful to those advertisers who purchased favicon ads.
Do you want us to say Thank You in this special way? So help us to help you!
You will just need to take a look at our advertisement section on how you can start advertising at SmashingApps to grow and spread more or contact us for more information and details related to
- direct marketing
- sponsored giveaways and contest for Smashing Apps readers
- releasing a free font, a WordPress-theme, some wallpapers, an icon-set or anything else
LayerOnline: Need For Speed – Google loves it fast
Professional bloggers and webmasters know that nowadays having good content on a website is not good enough to rank high in Google and other search engines. The ranking is also determined by the loading speed of your website. The faster the better. The loading speed also directly determines the cost of CPC for your AdWords campaigns. No matter how good your content is, if your landing page loads slowly, it would directly be taxed on your CPC. Therefore, SEO experts, bloggers and webmasters are constantly looking for faster web hostings. Unfortunately, many hosting companies are unable to meet the need for their users. Their web services are often overloaded or down, left alone fast web hosting. That’s where LayerOnline comes in. Now, bloggers and webmasters are able to gain an unfair advantage in website speed with LayerOnline.
LayerOnline web hosting was designed from the ground up to be digg, slashdot and stumbleupon effect ready. We understand the needs for speed and uptime of website users. Our web hosting is able to outperform our competitors by 60 times or more, and able to maintain 100% uptime even under digg effect. How do we do it? In this article we will explain some of the technologies we use.
Under the Hood
LayerOnline uses many optimization technologies, the most noticeable ones are FastCGI, PHP Opcode Cache, and HTTP Compression. We also offer many features such as free DDOS-Protection, unlimited inodes and we are one of the greenest hosting companies.
FastCGI
There are three ways of serving PHP webpages under Apache Web Server:
- CGI/suPHP
- Apache PHP Module
- FastCGI
With CGI/suPHP method, a PHP process is called each time a php page is hit, and quit after the page is served. This means for each php page hit, it requires one PHP process. Each PHP process takes quite a bit of memory and is slow to initialize. The constant running and quitting of PHP processes also stress the server, making it slower. The CGI method doesn’t scale well since if there are 100 page requests at the same time, there would be 100 PHP processes running, and 1000 PHP processes if there are 1000 page requests, which will soon cause memory errors and eventually bring down the server. With PHP running as an Apache module, there is only one PHP engine per Apache process, so no need to run another PHP process, hence saving some memory. However, there are also issues with this approach. Some PHP extensions are not made to be thread-safe and can cause problem in this setup, also if the PHP engine crashes, it would bring down the entire Apache web server because it is part of the Apache process. Running PHP as a module also means that if Apache is serving a long PHP request, it cannot serve other HTTP requests. Also if you don’t have any PHP-based websites, you still need to load the PHP module in each Apache process, wasting memory.
FastCGI solves both problems of CGI/suPHP and Apache PHP module. FastCGI serves PHP pages from a PHP application server seperated from Apache. Apache serves all regular HTTP requests and passes all PHP requests to the application server. This setup is the most efficient since FastCGI process is always alive and ready to serve, offload the heavylifting work from Apache. Therefore in this setup, Apache server is more stable, uses less memory and can serve more HTTP requests faster. This is the method which LayerOnline uses.
Unfortunately, most hosting companies are still in the CGI/suPHP era, because FastCGI is expensive and complicate to setup. Since the CGI/suPHP solution doesn’t scale well, to prevent the servers from overloading and crashing, these hosting companies need to quickly suspend users with the most PHP processes during peak load, cause loss of money and troubles for the website users.
If you like to see some benchmark numbers for FastCGI, you can check out Brandon’s blog.
PHP Opcode Cache
Each PHP page must be compiled into machine code before it can be executed. This compiled binary is also known as the opcode. Without a PHP opcode cache, the compiled binary is simply discarded after execution, and must be recompiled for each page hit, resulting in wasted CPU cycles. There are three main opcode caches in PHP world: Eaccelerator, APC and XCache. LayerOnline supports all three. In LayerOnline’s setup, Eaccelerator is loaded by default, APC and XCache are loaded on-demand by the applications. These opcode caches are compatible and can accelerate all PHP applications. For popular PHP applications such as WordPress and Drupal, they go even further by detecting and integrating opcode cache’s APIs to accelerate many of their internal functions.
HTTP Compression
All major web browsers such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Opera support HTTP compression which can download web pages at up to 90% faster. However, the web server must support this technology. There are two types of HTTP compression methods: gzip and deflate. LayerOnline support both of them. Many popular PHP applications are able to make use of this technology and therefore able to send the web pages at a much faster rate. LayerOnline servers also cache all the cacheable compressed pages in memory so no CPU cycles are wasted.
The Result
So, do all these speed optimizations really improve ranking? Do they really pay off? If they are as good as LayerOnline claims to be, how well do they do for LayerOnline’s own search engine rankings? Does LayerOnline really offer the fastest blog hosting? Well, check out our ranking with the following keywords in Google, Bing and Yahoo:
fastest blog hosting
fastest forum hosting
fastest php hosting
fastest web hosting
fastest wordpress hosting
fastest joomla hosting
fastest drupal hosting
fastest phpbb hosting
fastest vbulletin hosting
fastest ffmpeg hosting
fastest green hosting
fastest <keyword> hosting…
Try your favorite search keywords relate to hosting above, chances are LayerOnline is either 1st position or within the first page. Wait, there is more, try some search phrases related to hosting speed, reliability and features, such as:
highest performance <keyword> hosting
fastest <keyword> webhost
100% uptime <keyword> hosting
green hosting <keyword>
reliable <keyword> hosting 100% uptime
ffmpeg hosting <keyword>
free ddos protection <keyword> hosting
…
You can probably come up with hundreds of them, too many to list here. That’s one page against millions of keyword optimized homepages and subpages, and those hosting companies with higher page rankings. Not bad is it? So what Google has to say about LayerOnline? Try these searches:
fastest reliable <keyword> hosting
cheapest fastest <keyword> hosting
cheapest fastest reliable <keyword> hosting
world’s cheapest fastest reliable <keyword> hosting
So there you go, according to Google, LayerOnline is world’s cheapest, fastest and most reliable blog/web hosting. Well, with less than $2/month and $6.99 domain names, FastCGI, 100% uptime guarantee and all the fantastic features, you be the judge.
