I recently resolved a server performance issue. Here’s a recap of what I went through in hopes you find it useful. I’m running Ubuntu on the smallest Rackspace Cloud Server available (too much foreshadow?). The server has 256MB of ram and it’s sole purpose is to run Drupal on Apache. I have set up a few servers in the past, but I do not claim to be an expert. This recent problem had me stumped for a while.
While it is nice that new smartphones can render virtually any website reasonably well, we are remiss to not take context into account. Is “reasonably well” really your end goal? I have been dipping my toe into making this site more optimized for mobile consumption by serving up some size delineated styles. I wanted to share a couple of notes on my approach.
While still on the high of just attending the FOWA Miami, I am inspired to start blogging again. If you have not yet attended a FOWA, you should. It is an awesome event put on by some excellent people. I must say, attending this conference really made me feel part of a web community, more than going to any social network ever has.