John Robertson

You should self host all images. Imageshack is a very slow image server for one. What CDN are you with? Feels a bit slow on my end at least.

do you have cURL support enabled?

Hmm good point. But on yoast for example, he also does a full apc set up and the report shows his css being zipped.

Those items are not necessarily needed for it to work properly. memcached, apc and so on are optional methods of caching, each for their own use depending on the server configuration and traffic you get. I have APC (alternative php caching) installed so Opcode cache will say Opcode cache: APC but the Memcache extension and Mime type detection are also not installed for me.

anyone?

anyone?

anyone?

I tried a bit of back end editing using zlib.output_compression, but it seems the script doesnt like it :/

So Im guessing you are using the blog more to give information rather than as a news portal?

The best Cache scripts are WP Supercache and W3 Total Cache, where you can adjust the lifespan of each cached page. it doenst auto index until someone visits unfortunately as you seem to want it in your question.

Those two plugins are very reputable and are continually updated. Mashable uses W3 Total Cache, since their IT Manager developed it, so you can expect to see it updated frequently.

Well I checked that, still didnt work … so went last resort and reuploaded my wp-admin and wp-include folders… that seemed to fix it. maybe a file got corrupted some how … I wish I knew why.

Latest version of Flash… tried it in Chrome, Firefox and IE..and it doenst work.. I will try on another PC and see… but could there be any other reasons?

Edit – tried on another pc and encountered the same issue

rename ur plugins folder to plugins2 and then try to access it. it may be that some 2.8 plugin compatible version may not work with 2.9. check out https://www.aperture.ro/index.php/2009/07/upgrading-wordpress-troubleshooting-http-500-internal-server-error/ for more ideas as well.

Thanks bro, much appreciated ??

Ok problem solved… my PHP5 handler was set to suphp and not DSO.

Both of those plugins are out of date.

Also, I found out that my new server didnt have GD activated by default… works now ??