So you've loaded the latest SQL patches and Windows service packs, updated Patron Edge and PEO to the latest version and trimmed down transaction times , but your database just can't keep up with you. Before going out and buying a brand new, top-of-the-line server for your database, try some...

Firefox , the greatest of the modern browsers, released version 3 of their product just about four hours ago and it has already been downloaded nearly 3 million (million!) times. It's more secure, prettier, faster and smarter than anything else out there (yes, even you Safari). I encourage all of...

Different research tells us that the average online shopper will wait between four and 10 seconds for a page to load before giving up. One decent article I’ve managed to find indicates that the number is much closer to four than 10. And US broadband penetration is currently in the 80% range (scheduled...

This tip isn’t for everyone, but for those of you who have an environment where your web server can talk directly to your PE database server, we can eliminate two applications called Queues and Listener and really speed up load times on your PEO site. To do this requires PEO 3.2.5 or higher and some...

One of the features of PEO 3.2.5+ and PE 3.240+ is the ability to run on SQL 2005 natively. If you are relatively new to PE/PEO and are creating a new database in SQL 2005, it will automatically be in 2005 mode (also called compatibility level 90). But if you have upgraded an existing SQL server instance...

PEO 3.2.5 introduced a Protocol feature that is pretty handy and great for site performance. Everyone knows that HTTPS is the protocol to use for sending information securely, but it's also slower than regular HTTP. That’s why a lot of commercial sites don’t switch to HTTPS until a user is on a page...