Tag Archives: apache

Apache Admin Notes: Raw Performance Numbers

In late Decem­ber I started look­ing at alter­na­tive web servers, hav­ing hit a point where I actu­ally asked aloud (though to no one in par­tic­u­lar) why I still use Apache for any http or php needs that may arise. I sat down, installed nginx (nginx 0.6.33) from the EPEL (Extra Pack­ages for Enter­prise Linux) repos­i­to­ries and lighttpd (lighttpd 1.4.20) from …

January 15, 2009 – 5:55 pm | By Ryan | Posted in apache, linux, site meta | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Apache Admin Notes: Knowing The Field

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 …

December 29, 2008 – 2:02 am | By Ryan | Posted in informational, site meta, work | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Hosting control panels

Seri­ously, I am learn­ing to write code just so I can write a host­ing con­trol panel that doesn't make me vio­lently angry when I try to use.

June 16, 2008 – 2:12 pm | By Ryan | Posted in applications, site meta | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off