A few moments ago I received a message on Twitter that contained information on how you could help the Red Cross with its efforts in Chile. While the intentions are good, this can quickly become a target of fraudsters.
My biggest concern is that a fraudster will simply replace the account information to one he owns him or herself. Because it is such a hot topic on Twitter at the moment, this altered message would make its rounds quickly. View Full Article »
Well, like many others, I’ve been following the developing stories surrounding the tsunami that was caused by the earthquake near Santiago, Chile. One of the many island groups that lay in the path of the tsunami was Hawaii and I’ve been keeping an eye on the webcams provided by MauiWindCam. They were one of the few live webcam sites in Hawaii capable of dealing with the huge influx of other curious people. For those who missed this, I’ve recorded a number of images that can be viewed in the gallery below. View Full Article »
First of all, I’d like to wish you a Happy New Year! Those years sure come in quick succession, don’t they? Or at least they seem to be when you’re constantly busy with things.
So I have been keeping myself busy with a number of projects, some small, some big. One project has been updating my blog a bit, giving it a fresh coat of paint and tweaking a few bits and bytes. All this tweaking will give the articles some more room, because in my previous layout it seemed rather cramped. I still don’t have a logo though, so those three overlapping circles in the upper-left corner will have to do for now. View Full Article »
Well, I haven’t posted in about a week and that’s because I’ve been spending a lot of time on a little project.
Someone on the OVH forums made mention of using Amazon’s S3 services for external storage and he’s using s3fs for this purpose.
Interested, I took a peek at this project and was immediately taken back by the lack of >5 GB file support. I have files that cover 10x that size. So what do you do in this case? Fix it! View Full Article »
I’ve been reading a few other blogs about how some people have implemented NginX as an accelerator for their Apache-based websites.
NginX outperforms Apache on small- to mid-range servers when it comes to static file handling, particularly because it is event driven.
The downside of NginX is that PHP can only be used with FastCGI. In general, most how-to’s explain how to implement PHP FastCGI with NginX using TCP. This is adding extra overhead and slows PHP to a crawl. A better solution is to use the UNIX sockets instead, which is explained well in Till’s blog.
But even using UNIX sockets, the PHP FastCGI and NginX combination is not as fast as Apache can handle PHP requests. For this reason, NginX can act as a great accelerator for static files while Apache deals with all the PHP requests. Even with the extra TCP overhead between NginX and Apache, this makes for quite a speedy combination.
Thinking logically, some people figured that loading static files from RAM memory instead of the harddrive must make things even faster. But that really depends… View Full Article »
