technical consulting for cascadia
Well, it’s true, almost all web servers do not proxy efficiently to a cluster of mongrel servers as was detailed in “Yet another post on how to setup Ruby on Rails to deal with high traffic websites.” I tried, in order, apache 2.2, pound 2.0, nginx 0.4.13 which are the more popular web server [...]
Well, we’ve tried phpgroupware, vtiger, and request-tracker and we’re still looking for that solution that really benefits us as a small company trying to coordinate tasks, contacts. projects, and resources but is open source and freely available.
Not that I have a high traffic ruby on rails site yet but the time will come and I want to try and set it up well from the start. The main problem is that ruby on rails is not thread-safe so each request must be handled by a separate process. So generally [...]
I started playing with PowerDNS a couple of months back. It wasn’t trivial to install but it wasn’t difficult either. As I find myself needing to move forward on DNS I did some more reading and now I feel that PowerDNS is overkill and I’m leaning toward MaraDNS. MaraDNS seems to fit [...]