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How to limit website visitor bandwidth by country

Thursday, March 4, 2010

This technique is great if you have no customers from countryX but are being targeted by a DoS, unwanted crawlers, bots, scrapers and other baddies. Please don’t use this to discriminate against less profitable countries. The web should be open for all. Thanks.
If you’re not already using Nginx, you should get it even if you [...]

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How to handle 1000’s of concurrent users on a 360MB VPS

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

There has been some recent confusion about how much memory you need in a web server to handle a huge number of concurrent requests. I also made a performance claim on the STS list that got me an unusual number of private emails.
Here’s how you run a highly concurrent website on a shoe-string budget:
The first [...]

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