I’ve mentioned it before in another post, but now that I’ve confirmed it works for twitter I’d like to point out that if you’re on a public network, or you’re using someone’s wifi, or you’re simply security concious that you might wish to consider using https:// so the traffic between twitter and you is encrypted.
https://twitter.com/ works. So use it!
With MySQL v3 out of the way, and MySQL 4 and 5 being used everywhere now (and if you have not upgraded to the latest stable .. shame on you) I think it is time to point out that you can use MySQLi for your code, software and sites. This blog is to inform you about MySQLi and give you information so you can decide to upgrade and if you have already to perhaps use it on your vBulletin installation.
Bigger PHP applications, such as vBulletin can gain a lot of increased performance from running a PHP op-code cache/accelerator such as APC.
Here are some instructions on how install APC on various systems, my personal experience is with what appears the most common: 32bit CentOS 5 Server.
