The biggest traffic source for the web site is search engines traffic. There is a lot what can be written on search engine optimization (SEO). But I just realized that often web masters or web site owners missing quite important application from the Google itself Google Webmaster Tools That’s a valuable data on what Google “knows” about your web site, definetely worth checking and should be a starting point of the search engines optimization.

If you are doing web development, then you know that you need to have all recent versions of the IE browser to troubleshoot your sites. Here is one way to have them all, thanks to Edskes Software collection – just download pack and install all versions you want. http://finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm

We are using FogBugz application for the bugs and support requests tracking. And it’s configured to receive support@companyname.com emails (means tons of spam). Once the database size hit approximately 20,000 requests, we started really wonder: why so slow? It looks like there was another table BugEvent which size is around 200,000 records at that time. It could be some other application, could be your own code. Doesn’t matter – just it happens, one database size grows, performance of the application is degrading. First step to troubleshoot – enable slow queries log in the MySQL...