Divvens
Well-known member
@MattW just made my community more awesome, here's how.
I contacted Matt on the first of this month (Oct 1), my community is on a managed VPS - but managed in the sense that I don't have to take care of majority of the things but they won't step in for third party software (I don't think any managed provider would do that, unless stated), I was looking into methods to make the most out of my VPS, and I'm not gifted with the skills required to manage a server so I started looking on XenForo, found Matt and read really good reviews, ended up starting a vague personal conversation with him.
I wasn't sure of what I wanted when I contacted him, was it server management? Was it optimization? Was it a server move? I myself was confused, had to sort out a few things and when everything was in the right order, I informed him of my exact requirement - that is optimizing my current server to run my XF installation most efficiently.
Although I require more resources (RAM) he worked along and did his best with what I currently have, within minutes had most of the backend updated (PHP, MySQL, LiteSpeed, Memcache) and installed OPCache - gave me two pages where I can monitor these services and basically worked his magic on my VPS.
There was a drastic improvement, not slight - not noticeable, just plain drastic. My community has never responded or loaded so fast and so smoothly, the first time I resolved a report after Matt worked his magic - I was literally jumping Because it just responded so quick.
Basically; Matt worked his magic and my community loads much faster. Currently he continues to monitor my server for any tweaks to be made further or if things should be maintained as is. My users are happy, I'm happier. Hiring Matt was worth it, his professionalism and his approach even made someone like me (a person who doesn't know much about server management) to understand a lot. He even fixed a mistake I made with my Memcache setup.
If you are looking for someone to optimize your server so that your XF installation runs smoothly, Matt is your guy. I'm happy I won't need to worry about troublesome things like switching hosts - I just need to wait for my current provider to up the VPS packages and I'll just upgrade, if it weren't for Matt I'd have to take the drastic step of leaving the host I trust and wish to stay with.
I don't think this post even does justice to his service, anyways - keep it up Matt. Will be troubling you once more whenever I happen to up my VPS package.
I'll edit this post and update the before/after results after a while - with two really busy days coming up I'm eager to see the before/after results
I contacted Matt on the first of this month (Oct 1), my community is on a managed VPS - but managed in the sense that I don't have to take care of majority of the things but they won't step in for third party software (I don't think any managed provider would do that, unless stated), I was looking into methods to make the most out of my VPS, and I'm not gifted with the skills required to manage a server so I started looking on XenForo, found Matt and read really good reviews, ended up starting a vague personal conversation with him.
I wasn't sure of what I wanted when I contacted him, was it server management? Was it optimization? Was it a server move? I myself was confused, had to sort out a few things and when everything was in the right order, I informed him of my exact requirement - that is optimizing my current server to run my XF installation most efficiently.
Although I require more resources (RAM) he worked along and did his best with what I currently have, within minutes had most of the backend updated (PHP, MySQL, LiteSpeed, Memcache) and installed OPCache - gave me two pages where I can monitor these services and basically worked his magic on my VPS.
There was a drastic improvement, not slight - not noticeable, just plain drastic. My community has never responded or loaded so fast and so smoothly, the first time I resolved a report after Matt worked his magic - I was literally jumping Because it just responded so quick.
Basically; Matt worked his magic and my community loads much faster. Currently he continues to monitor my server for any tweaks to be made further or if things should be maintained as is. My users are happy, I'm happier. Hiring Matt was worth it, his professionalism and his approach even made someone like me (a person who doesn't know much about server management) to understand a lot. He even fixed a mistake I made with my Memcache setup.
If you are looking for someone to optimize your server so that your XF installation runs smoothly, Matt is your guy. I'm happy I won't need to worry about troublesome things like switching hosts - I just need to wait for my current provider to up the VPS packages and I'll just upgrade, if it weren't for Matt I'd have to take the drastic step of leaving the host I trust and wish to stay with.
I don't think this post even does justice to his service, anyways - keep it up Matt. Will be troubling you once more whenever I happen to up my VPS package.
I'll edit this post and update the before/after results after a while - with two really busy days coming up I'm eager to see the before/after results
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