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Wed, 13 May 2009

19:01 – Now on faster hardware

The machine that used to serve this blog (an aging Sun Netra T1) had been starting to show its age for a while. Rock-solid hardware though it is, it really is no match for the bloated scriptware running websites in the 21st century.

It has now been replaced by a shiny multi-core amd64 machine from iXsystems.

As part of the move to new hardware, I decided to replace Apache with lighttpd and move some more stuff into jails. This should ensure that the beast continues to be fast even if stuff gets even more bloated.

This was a remarkably smooth ride.

[ category: /meta | 5 comments on this entry ]

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Posted by Philip Paeps at Wed May 13 19:04:23 2009
We use lighttpd for shared hosting since 2007.

Works great :-)

Posted by CyberCr33p at Wed May 13 20:33:43 2009
CyberCr33p: I still need to figure out some of the interesting differences with Apache.  I've already had a merry time converting all my .htaccess files to stanzas in the config file.  Much fun.

Posted by Philip Paeps at Wed May 13 20:59:01 2009
Nice, your weblog load times can now finally be measured in ms rather than seconds. ;-)

Posted by ghen at Thu May 14 13:08:49 2009
ghen: I wonder if that's good or bad. ;-)

Posted by Philip Paeps at Sat May 16 15:37:49 2009

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