Now I can sort 200,000 records inside of Browser (Chrome) just in 1 sec. (Faster than Microsoft Excel):

http://www.ardentedge.com/ex_if.htm

might be the reason

Using reverse-ip tool, it looks like the number of domains hosted on my exact “shared” server at GoDaddy has fallen from ~3700 in March 2007 to ~2700 as of July 2008.

Also, I’m now some 3 years with GoDaddy, and it might be that long-staying customers get some “indirect” benefits.

But still, own server is way better :), especially if you don’t have to pay for the server’s outgoing bandwidth.

I do have to admit that you do get quite a reasonable load times. I suspect that GoDaddy either accidentally or deliberately treats different customers differently. It may be that I originally got stuck with an overcrowded server but another possibility is that I am running a strictly private page without the visibility of your blog. I wonder if GoDaddy is more accommodating to pages that are more visible like yours.

I’m now more or less satisfied with page load times of this blog and gallery2 I have here.

However, I’m currently assembling my own server from off-the-shelf components to collocate it with some ISP for about USD 20/mo That’s 3 times the price of Deluxe shared plan, but still a lot cheaper than VPS/VDS solutions, and I’ll have full (remote) control over server, and will be able to sell some of it if I want to. However, this adds the hassle of maintaining the server, which I’m prepared to face.

thanks a lot for the links! I’ll consider using the libsbml2/3 libraries from E-cell’s Lenny repository.

However, it’s even more exciting for me to learn that Debian has a bio-medical software task force! The least I can do right now is to write a post about the Debian Med project, what I’m already doing…

Frankly speaking, I was somewhat surprised at the ICSB-2008 to see that some software tutorials explicitly stated that Windows will be the “tutorial OS” (for the sake of completeness, it must be mentioned that presented software did have Linux version). Also, given some problems I’m trying to overcome with other pieces of systems biology tools, it appears that Linux isn’t (yet!) that popular among systems biology software developers, even despite the fact that most of the software is written either in Java (which is cross-platform, as well as Eclipse), or in C++ (which, to the best of my knowledge, is also highly portable, given that cross-platform GUI toolkit is used).

To conclude: thanks for your efforts in helping Debian become the truly versatile and popular OS, also for bio/med applications.

Best,

Steffen

if the MySQL optimization engine really does that, and if this is allowed (remember, we are triggering the ON DUPLICATE KEY event, and then trying to assign that key’s value to another value, even if it is the same), then this is a really good solution.

Based on your comment, I updated the post, as MySQL syntax in fact doesn’t allow the empty statement after ON (…) UPDATE.