Browse Tag: Web Site Building

Improved ERPTC’s Server by Tuning MySQL

logo-mysqlERPTC’s server performance had been terrible because I had never spent time to tune MySQL. Well, today I had taken care of tuning MySQL.  Now the site loads in just over a second. Here are the results from Pingdom Tools:

Tested Load Time Page Size Requests Page Speed
April 2 17:55:46 1.52 s 3.0 MB 157 84
April 2 14:26:11 1.18 s 3.0 MB 157 84
April 2 14:25:56 7.73 s 3.0 MB 157 79
April 2 14:04:00 1.38 s 3.0 MB 157 84
April 2 14:01:43 1.16 s 3.0 MB 157 84
April 2 14:01:26 1.29 s 3.0 MB 157 84
April 2 14:01:13 1.19 s 3.0 MB 157 84
April 2 14:00:59 7.35 s 3.0 MB 157 79
April 2 13:56:37 2.70 s 3.0 MB 163 83
April 2 13:56:19 2.63 s 3.0 MB 163 83
April 2 13:56:04 6.91 s 3.0 MB 163 79
April 2 13:32:56 2.60 s 3.0 MB 162 83
April 2 13:32:41 6.30 s 3.0 MB 163 83
April 2 13:32:23 2.66 s 3.0 MB 163 83
April 2 13:32:07 8.82 s 3.0 MB 162 79
April 2 13:20:10 2.91 s 3.0 MB 163 83
April 2 13:18:25 9.05 s 3.0 MB 162 79
April 2 13:07:21 12.97 s 3.0 MB 163 79
April 2 13:06:20 10.25 s 3.0 MB 163 79

ERPTC is Now Using Mail Chimp

mailchimp-logoI was having a huge problem with sending mailing list emails from ERPTC‘s WordPress server. Every time I would send out the club’s weekly newsletter, the majority of the emails would go unread because they were winding up in the recipient’s spam folder. This is the problem with sending emails using your own server like ERPTC does. It’s a problem that is very difficult to fix, if it ever could be fixed.

As a remedy, I have decided to try out MailChimp for managing the club’s email list. I understand nothing is foolproof, but using MailChimp will have to be better than the current situation.