For those unaware, I'm an Apache web server administrator. However, for the last few years, a variety of other web servers have been gaining in popularity and building dedicated followings around themselves. 8 years ago when I started Webslum your web server options were basically iPlanet (now Sun Java System Web Server), Apache, and IIS (which no one …
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December 29, 2008 – 2:02 am
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Posted in informational, site meta, work
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Tagged apache, comparison, httpd, iis, iplanet, lighttpd, litespeed, nginx, shoot-out
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This has been a week of bargain shopping and self gratification. It's remarkably difficult for someone with a birthday that butts ass-backwards up against Christmas to truly be selfless this time of year, and my recent spending spree only reinforces this statement. On the 22nd I picked up an 18" John Boos end grain walnut butcher block cutting …
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My favorite thing about Christmas is that it's perfectly (un)acceptable to crank The Vandals record "Oi to The World" all day at work. When you want to mix it up a little, the No Doubt cover of "Oi to The World" will also suffice for a quick interlude.
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This makes me extra sad in light of the fact that Ozh just tore this down as "Do Not Want" in his history of the WordPress admin interface. I didn't mind that administration design at all, finding it much more usable than the one that existed before it. I'm told that nowadays that means I have …
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Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. While it is true that I've all but disappeared, I have at least been working in the background. I've been working on upgrading all of the hosted wordpress sites I maintain (and the one I don't) to WordPress 2.7, and I've begun searching for a new theme to adopt for my …
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is a palette cleanser; I can grind through one of his novels in about 5 hours, it's light on the mind, and doesn't require much deep thought. It occasionally elicits a comfortable chuckle and doesn't leave any sort of controversial aftertaste. His work is the literary equivalent of a light flan or sorbet served between courses: it's not the point …
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