---
title: The Tech Guy at Tech in Asia
date: 2014-09-01 10:35:32
permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2014/09/01/the-tech-guy-at-tech-in-asia/
author: Lester Chan
categories:
  - Blog
tags:
  - mig33
  - Tech in Asia
---

In case you haven’t been following me, I left [migme](http://mig.me) (previously known as mig33) after [4 years and 7 months](https://lesterchan.net/blog/2010/02/01/web-engineer-at-mig33/) there. I went in as a Web Engineer and along the way I got promoted to Senior Web Engineer. It has been an awesome ride with my fellow colleagues in migme.

Here is my farewell message to them:

> Today is my last day in mig! As some of you might have known, this is my first job and it has been an awesome 4 1/2 years ride with ups and downs. It seems Steven has given a lot of people their first jobs in mig.
> 
> I came in as a web engineer who knows how to code but doesn’t know much about web servers, but over the years I gained a lot of hands-on experience with playing with servers. Thanks to all the seniors who have taught and guided me well.
> 
> At times, I might not be the easiest person to work with but as what Lee Kuan Yew once said, “I did what I thought was right, given the circumstances, given my knowledge at the time, given the pressures on me at the time. That’s finished, done. I move forward. You keep on harking back, it’s just wasting time.”
> 
> I would think of myself as graduated rather than leaving! Who knows I might be back again for “post-graduate” studies

[![Tech in Asia Logo](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3896/15060292631_27713bdfdb_c.jpg "Tech in Asia Logo")](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3896/15060292631_c133ecb4d7_o.png "Tech in Asia Logo")

Today, is my first day of work in [Tech in Asia](http://www.techinasia.com) as The Tech Guy. The role is pretty simple, I am in-charge of everything that is engineering/tech related. So if there is anything wrong with the website, you can blame me for it =p

They are using [WordPress](https://wordpress.org) to power most of their sites and hopefully my experience in WordPress coupled with some devops experience that I obtained in migme, will be able to bring them forward.

I realised they are using some of my WordPress plugins as well like [WP-DBManager](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dbmanager/) and [WP-ServerInfo](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-serverinfo/).

Tech in Asia has several sites under them and of course the first thing I did was to get them monitored for downtime using [Pingdom](https://www.pingdom.com). You can check it out here: [status.techinasia.com](http://status.techinasia.com)

Over the next couple of weeks, my immediate priority would be to scale the site by separating the services into different servers. Right now everything is being hosted on a single VPS and MySQL has become our bottleneck.

We will also be moving away from [Digital Ocean](https://www.digitalocean.com) VPSes to a mix of physical servers and VPSes at [SoftLayer](http://www.softlayer.com).

[![www.techinasia.com](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3864/14914298049_31096e4759_c.jpg "www.techinasia.com")](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3864/14914298049_07043c8658_o.jpg "www.techinasia.com")