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Nginx is a powerful web server and therefore our choice. Unfortunately, the Gentoo ebuild is missing one essential extension: a load balancer that is querying the servers not via round robin but by their current load. Therefore, we had to extend the …
For years, we were using Squirrelmail as the default web mail client. Well, it would be a lie to say its design looks good but it offers a lot of functionality that nearly compensates the design deficits. The really basic functionalities … Conti…
From time to time it can happen that websites that used to be on your webservers are being moved by your clients without notifying you. Therefore, you will have to search for «zombie websites». I have the following setup: There is an Apache webserver that has a lot of websites. Each website has at least …
We finally managed to release a package for the (currently) recent version of Best Practical’s Request Racker (rt). We added it to our layman / portage overlay. see the following article for information on how to add it to your portage tree. Additional Notes:
There are several packages which are masked at the moment. We …
You might know the situation: You’d like to run tomcat from a privileged port, but the bloody thing just won’t start. Of course, it’s java-specific. Usually, a daemon gets its port from root. Not with Java. Your possibilities are therefore somewhat cruel. let us think about the options…
run it as root. that’s ugly and …
We decided to have a reverse domain name structure that conatains (beside the htdocs) all vhost-related information like logs, stats and config. The reverse structure is neccessary to get an quick overview not about the subdomains but the domains. Additionally, we wanted to have a script which sets up the structure and creates the necessary files. …
There are lots of howtos for running awstats with lighthttpd. Nearly all of them define a subdomain for statistics but miss to add the only line for defaulting to awstats.pl. Here is what you have to do to do it … Continue reading →
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Nach einem Serverumzug im letzten Sommer hat sich der Traffic zwischen Januar und Dezember letzten Jahres mehr als verdoppelt. Was ein zweiter Kern so alles ausmachen kann… Inzwischen wurde auch die Terrabyte-Grenze mehrfach deutlich überschritt…
Nach einem Serverumzug im letzten Sommer hat sich der Traffic zwischen Januar und Dezember letzten Jahres mehr als verdoppelt. Was ein zweiter Kern so alles ausmachen kann… Inzwischen wurde auch die Terrabyte-Grenze mehrfach deutlich überschritt…