Linux

Some weeks ago I decided to move my notes from Microsoft OneNote to Joplin. Microsoft OneNote is a great tool for taking notes collaborative, but sometimes it drives me insane and I wanted a more portable form at for my notes.

Markdown is a perfect portable format, and it is widly adopted. I really like the idea behind Markdown, and I even supported a Microsoft User Voice to add native Markdown support into OneNote. So my new note taking tool had to support Markdown. Long story short: Joplin was my tool of choice. It’s running on Windows and there is also an iOS app. Joplin offers a wide range of options to sync the notes, but none of them seemed to fit my use case - Except for the Joplin Server. I’m not afaraid in running my own infrastructure. I have some Azure credits available each months, so running a small VM for a Joplin Server is a good way to use them.

Over the last weeks, I’ve tried to improve the performance of my blog. The side was very slow and the page load times varied between 5 and 10 seconds. Much too long! I’ve reduced time consuming plugins, checked the size of pictures, checked CSS and HTML for misconfiguration/ slow clode and tuned the database. The page load times have not really improved.

Yesterday, I checked the httpd.conf on my webserver and found a little typo (accidentally commented line). After a restart of the Apache webserver, the page load times have dramatically improved (down to 2 - 3 seconds). What had happened?