September 16th, 2011
One of my sites is outgrowing a single server and I’ve been looking into clustering and load balancing so it can continue to expand. My biggest concern (until today) was making the PHP sessions available in a distributed environment. The standard answer is to serve sessions via the database, but this site is already top [...]
November 11th, 2010
Today is Veterans Day. If you are a veteran, thank you.
November 5th, 2010
This is a quick checklist to setup a new production server. It’s as much a reference for myself as anything else. Create a non-root user Install SSH Move SSH login to a non-standard port Update the default apt sources Disable root logins over SSH Install Advanced Policy Firewall (easy instructions for Debian) Configure APF (ports [...]
