Site slow? account CPU overloaded? Make sure you’re running PHP accelerators on your server.
Recently, a colleague has been having trouble with his site, as his medium-size Drupal website has been running extremely slow and overloading the server hosting account. This could have been due to a number of things, but sometimes even a Googlebot visit [...]

Blogerim.net is hosting the "Best (self-hosted) Israeli blog awards". I’ve been quietly following the Israeli self-hosted blogosphere for the past few months and have come to appreciate the growing number of quality bloggers in the small Israeli blogosphere.
The awards are split into a few categories and you can cast one vote for as many blogs [...]

There are no probloggers in Israel. Not yet, anyway, and so the question of the Israeli blogosphere remains whether an Israeli problogger is even possible with a small market of about 3-4m Internet users, most of whom think blogs are for kids and that they mostly use the main portals for online browsing (Walla, Ynet, MSN).
Running [...]

Google’s penalties are the dark side of running a website. Google’s penalties cause such a drop in SERP that traffic goes down to almost nothing. There are several kinds of penalties that are speculated to be cause by various reasons. There’s the -30 penalty, -950 penalty and others, and I was “fortunate” to experience one of [...]