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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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Costs and Startups – Advice for your CFO

Sunday, November 1, 2009

In any company if you save $1 it goes straight to your bottom line. Meaning it’s as if you just earned another $1. The company that my wife and I have been running for about 2 years now serves over 30 Million page requests per day. We’ve invested a lot of time in getting more [...]

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How to integrate PHP, Perl and other languages on Apache

Saturday, October 24, 2009

I have this module that a great group of guys in Malaysia have put together. But their language of choice is PHP and mine is Perl. I need to modify it slightly to integrate it. For example, I need to add my own session code so that their code knows if my user is logged [...]

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