3 posts
Scaling my blog for high traffic – WordPress + Apache + Varnish + Nginx
Scaling my blog for high traffic – WordPress + Apache + Varnish + Nginx
12 November 2012
On the 3rd of October, after some quite high load, my website crashed and went offline. Given I'd just gone to Sweden, this was a bit awkward. Looking at the stats – on the 2nd of October it was getting on average 5 page loads *per second* – except it wasn't evenly spread traffic – […]
Building reddit-frontpage-proof websites?
Building reddit-frontpage-proof websites?
7 February 2012
Rick Falkvinge's website Falkvinge.net recently frontpaged reddit. Actually, in the default setup, he had three articles, (#16, #22, #24), which, as he says, is a record for him. Why is this a big deal? Well with reddit being Alexa-ranked 133 and getting about 8.7 million visitors every day, being on the front page 3 times […]
Hello, I'm Tim and I have a job no one understands.
Hello, I'm Tim and I have a job no one understands.
29 December 2011
Ok, I hear you: I work with computers and the Internet – you understand that. But what exactly does a "Systems Administrator" at a "hosting company" do? Indeed… what's a "hosting company"? What do you mean by "Systems Administrator"? These are frequent questions I encounter when explaining to friends and family how I'm gainfully employed. […]
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