We all know and love the How To Make HTTP Requests with WordPress article by @Ozh written back in 2009, and I had quite an interesting discussion in the WordPress IRC channel today, mainly about WP_Http and how the 302 and 301 redirects are handled through different transports. The initial question was about grabbing the final URL to which request was redirected to, turns out there is no good way...
Benchmarking: Your Web Hosting is Not That Perfect
Today I realized that the VPS I’m renting for $20/mo is not as good as it seemed at first. Ever thought about high loads? Okay, this may sound like some DDoS hacking tools, but no! 100 requests with 10 simultaneous made my virtual private server think for ~ 1,5 minutes. Jeez! It took me quite some time to find good software for running some load tests on my webserver, linux has some good...