Comments on: My Plug for the SheevaPlug

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:04:39 +0000

Thanks for replying. I found the problem. WordPress had this option turned on: “Email me whenever anyone posts a comment”. However, mail from the sheevaplug was broken after some firewall changes I made back in August, causing email requests to hang for about 7 seconds. I fixed the mail problem and – hey presto, posting time dropped from 10 to about 3 or 4 seconds.

This blog has a very fast posting time. You desktop PC must be a monster.

By: Sean Barker

Sean Barker — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:20:54 +0000

The blog was running on my plug for awhile, but I was having some problems with my USB hard drive so I temporarily moved the site to my desktop, hence why it’s quite speedy right now. 10 seconds does seem excessive to save a post, though; I don’t think my plug ever took more than a couple.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:49:02 +0000

… WOW! that was blazingly fast. About 2 seconds! Nice! Is this blog really running on a sheeva plug ?

My blog takes about 10 seconds to save a post. It’s here by the way: unixetc.co.uk

I would like to to to my sheevaplug whatever it is you did to yours.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:44:24 +0000

Hi, good article. I have a sheevaplug at home and recently installed WordPress and mysql running with Apache2. My web site is fast enough. The only thing that is bugging me is the time it takes to save a post. I will be interested to see how long it takes to save this post, given the similarity of our environments…

By: Sean Barker

Sean Barker — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:39:05 +0000

I don't know of any US retailers offhand that sell an eSata version of the SheevaPlug, but New IT sells them in the UK (product link here) -- my understanding is that it's basically just the original SheevaPlug with the eSata mod applied. They also sell a few other modified plugs. I've only got the original model from Globalscale so I can't speak to the reliability or quality of other manufacturers, but I believe New IT is reliable.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:51:26 +0000

Very cool. I’m interested in picking up as Sheeva as well, but I’m curious where I can find a plug with eSata — you mentioned some manufacturers are now including them, but I haven’t found any. (I also don’t trust myself to buy a stock Sheeva and add the connection myself.) I know the GuruPlug Server Plus includes eSata, but from reading the forums it sounds like it is not stable so far.