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In a previous article I commented on the method for performing efficient backups using ZFS + compression + snapshots + rsync on FreeBSD. In this post I leave you a simplified version of one of the scripts I use to perform backups. With some modifications you can easily adapt it to your infrastructure obtaining the … Read more
One of the recommended features to improve performance in PrestaShop is to enable the “Smarty cache”. You can find this option in “Advanced Parameters -> Performance”, but it is not always true that the best option is to have it enabled. There are countless modules and templates for PrestaShop and each one is programmed better … Read more
This week (as usual urgently due to need and poor client planning) a colleague migrated a Magento 1.9 to one of our servers. In principle, although the technology to run a Magento 1 is usually straightforward, there are always some verifications, optimizations (many developers still do not know that you can use Redis for cache … Read more
What is the importance of a backup system? Everything. No infallible system exists, the datacenter provider can fail (do you remember the OVH fire?), the hardware of your dedicated server, a disastrous data manipulation by a user in the back office, an out-of-control synchronization process, a failed Magento update… so many and so many possible … Read more
Increasingly common and very useful and necessary for many websites is obtaining data in an automated way from other websites, which is what is known as “scraping”. The best example that comes to mind and surely the most widely used is knowing competitors’ prices and monitoring them for different purposes: from adapting your own e-commerce … Read more