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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!When I first started this experiment I planned on using a custom php framework. Recently I realized that its kinda pointless to attempt to do something like this and at the same time lock myself into something that may […]
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
This is part 2 of the Building Something Scalable series / experiment: Security.
Umm why are you talking about security?
Security is part of being scalable, simple. Think about it. If your security is setup decently your servers will ignore more fake / script kiddie request and can use handle more real ones. At the same […]
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
I currently have 3 vpses. One on Mediatemple and two at linode. Thing is I need at least 3 servers at linode to properly setup the environment for my scaling experiment / future gs setup….
So as of tonight I’m biting the bullet and now own 4 linodes. If all goes well I’ll toss 2-3 more […]
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
I haven’t had much time to post, or do anything fun in the past few months, but I’m currently working on a nginx, php, apache, varnish, memcachedb, mysql setup distributed between two servers. Why does this matter? Because I decided to upgrade my linode so I could slice up my resources into a nice little […]
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
I’ve been seriously getting my kicks with scalability fora number of months, so why not start on ongoing series where I talk about what I’ve learned / found?
So welcome to to the first: Building Something Scalable - An ongoing experiment. This post covers caching. I’ll cover delivery in the next post.
Keep in mind language wise […]
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
varnish setup with s3 integrationlinode cdnmedia converter installermedia converter rewritegoogle spider
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
So after years of partial frameworks, and various concepts, I’ve finally started my framework.
First off there is NO windows support. I’m sure that’s not the best way to go, but I can’t think of one reason to host a php app on windows. As noted windows isn’t supported, but I’m working on a linux […]
Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Its been over a month, so i figured its time to do an after action report.
Simply put I still LOVE openSuse. Of course theres a few things that need work, but overall its a wonderful distro that I strongly recommend.
Ok so for a bit of back story I’ve been using windows since i think 3.1. […]
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
I’ve been on opensuse for about 3-4 days and all i can say is awesome. simply put its the best linux I’ve ever used desktop wise.
Fyi - this is an opinion post, no stats, facts, etc.
Look
From jump opensuse has ubuntu beat look and feel wise, yes even mint linux. I use gnome and seriously its […]
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
So I’m now pretty much fed up with Ubuntu. It’s a great os, but I’m having nothing but issues with it.
First were the wireless issues. For some reason ubuntu dropped the connection every 20min-2hours. I eventually got that fixed.
Next we’re the repo issues. If you pull a file from the main repo it should work, […]
