Month: June 2009
Find the fastest Magento hosts easily .... MageBenchmark is semi-live
In the best interests of the community (and the fact we're always up for a little competition), we've soft-launched a new project MageBenchmark. Its in the early stages at the moment as we are just harvesting URLs, we are aiming … Continue reading
Magento: "Wrong charset, conversion from `UTF-16BE' to `UTF-8' is not allowed"
We have noticed this issue cropping up with Magento. Whilst we originally assumed it was a system level fault, further testing has revealed there is an issue with the implementation of iconv() in Magento. There was a problem with Magento … Continue reading
Magento: Admin area stall/freeze
After noting some downtime issues recently with Magentocommerce.com - it has come to our attention that it has had a possible impact on stores. When Magentocommerce went down this afternoon - the admin area on all of our hosted stores … Continue reading
Magento: mini_sendmail and Zend_Mail incompatibility
This article is now deprecated and the issue has been resolved without changes to core code after our service change. We have recently spotted an issue after traversing our Apache sendmail application to mini_sendmail (read more about the change). In … Continue reading
PHP: Combine and compile CSS and JS into Gzipped files
This has actually been the secret behind a lot of our great system performance, but as it was open source originally, it's going back to the people. Its a relatively straightforward script and speeds up JS and CSS performance by … Continue reading