Opinion
Running suEXEC + FCGID
Mar 23rd
A long, long time ago (Internet years), our webmaster (and Mike) changed the ipHouse web-cluster to run PHP via FastCGI. They did this with the thought that FCGId would offer greater performance and stability while offering the same security as running PHP via the CGI interface.
Around the same time I also tried implementing FCGId in Ubuntu on one of my virtual servers. It worked well, but I thought it was a bit verbose. Recently, I took on the project to set up FCGId for a managed customer. I decided to ask our webmaster how he implemented FGCI via the FCGIwrapper primitive and still get suEXEC to work.
Memcached
Mar 13th
Caching is a key component to any system design. Caching allows programs to be lazy, by referring to data that’s already been access. Looking up data takes a lot of work. Think of it this way: Someone asks you want the Capital of Indonesia is, and you don’t have Google handy. You have to figure out the best reference to look in, probably an encyclopedia, find the proper page, search on that page for the data that corresponds to “Capital”, in this case, Jakarta, and relay that information back to the person that asked you. However, five minutes later someone else asks you “what is the capital of Indonesia” and you simply say “Jakarta.” You’ve cached that data, and are now returning it. More >
Virtual servers on physical servers? Isn’t that redundant?
Mar 6th
I have recently been speaking with a number of customers that express the concern about virtual server redundancy as compared to physical hardware. What an apt opportunity to write a blog post about the difference in redundancies in physical vs virtual servers!
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Log like a paranoid Lumberjack!
Feb 21st
Ok, so maybe I’m a touch paranoid, but I like logging. I also like monitoring, and statistics. I like to know what’s going on, when and how. I don’t mind a little noise, as long as I can quickly assess what’s happening with my servers.
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Colo to Virtual Data Center Success – January, 2012
Feb 7th
Back in October, 2011, I had posted an article titled ‘Colocation is so 1990s…‘ discussing why I feel colocation is going the way of the dodo for most SMB business needs, and really, it isn’t as efficient as using a virtual data center anyway.
In the middle of January I helped someone move away from colocation into our vmForge VDC service offering.
Think in the cloud but without the variable monthly billing or non-persistent storage.
“virtual data center” has a nice ring to it doesn’t it?
