6 items tagged “servers”
2013
What’s the best use in the office for my old Macbook Pro?
Set it up to display metrics or KPIs—by running http://www.geckoboard.com/ on it for example.
[... 35 words]2012
How can I learn more about server-side technologies?
Get yourself a VPS, set it up from scratch and run some non-critical websites on it (nothing with private user data since you can’t be sure you’ll set it up securely). Both Slicehost and Linode offer a good set of guides to a whole host of common tasks:
[... 109 words]2011
How much ram do you need for 100M hits per day?
That entirely depends on what you are running your site on. If it’s static HTML pages, nginx will work fine on hardly any RAM at all (though you would probably be better off serving the entire site out of S3 and not using a VPS at all).
[... 99 words]How can I determine which web server a particular website is using (Apache, IIS, Nginx, etc)?
If you’re on Linux or OS X, use curl with the -I option (to make a HEAD request and see the HTTP headers):
[... 63 words]2010
What are some scalable OAuth and OpenID server implementations?
Any OAuth library should scale horizontally—I can’t see how any one library would be a better choice than another.
[... 36 words]2009
Google uncloaks once-secret server. Instead of a data centre wide UPS and redundant power supplies, each Google server has its own 12V battery. They live in standard shipping containers, each holding 1,160 servers. # 2nd April 2009, 10:47 am