Requirements

Pierre Lord — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:56:10 -0400

The BuzzMonitor is built on top of open-source technologies and software. It runs on Apache 2.x, MySQL 4.x or newer and PHP 4.1 or newer. BuzzMonitor was developed and tested on Linux-compatible platforms, but it should be possible to install it on a Windows system, as well. BuzzMonitor requires numerous non-standard PHP extensions like GD2, CURL, MHASH and several others. In addition, being familiar with Drupal will help. Drupal session management may require additional configuration when installing on PHP5; so you may find it easier to use PHP4, instead.

Current distribution requires a MySQL installation with InnoDB enabled.

Hosting

BuzzMonitor is a complex and fairly resource-intensive software system. We strongly recommend a dedicated server with plenty of RAM available. BuzzMonitor has been extensively tested on a Linux platform and it is the operating system we recommend.

Bandwidth

As for any other web system, bandwidth utilization of the BuzzMonitor depends on usage. Being a "mashup" of different web-services and an aggregator, its performance can be strongly affected by the connection robustness between the BuzzMonitor server and those of Yahoo, Technorati, Alexa and other service providers.

Configuration

BuzzMonitor is a database-intensive application. Tunning MySQL installation (e.g. enabling query cache and setting it to a high level) can have significant effect on the application performance. Using a PHP code-cache like eAccelerator or APC has shown to significantly improve the performance, as well.

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Requirements

Hosting

Bandwidth

Configuration