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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Is this any faster ?
(posted at 10:07PM GMT)

journal.terryfroy.com is now hosted on the dedicated webserver/database cluster which will soon be the home of all spilsby.net shared hosting customers.

The boxes are very high spec with SSD-based storage rather than conventional hard disk storage; as a result, there is very little latency between a request being received and a request being answered.

All web requests are served via nginx rather than Apache as nginx is heavily geared towards performance; while Apache is a more common webserver, the performance provided isn't all that hot compared to some of the other offerings out there.

PHP is now 5.3.x rather than 5.1.x; meaning that the entire catalogue of PHP functions is now supported and also allows access to both PHP acceleration and FastCGI process management functionality without excessive process spawning which suPHP performs and the memory usage which mod_php causes.

In short, it blows the socks off any other conventional web host and I would be very interested to see benchmarks from anyone who would care to argue with that.

 
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Sweden Becomes 38th Country To Sign NASA's Artemis Accords For Moon Exploration

House Passes Bill Requiring Warrant To Purchase Data From Third Parties

Google Workers Arrested After Nine-Hour Protest In Cloud Chief's Office

TikTok Starts Testing Its Instagram Competitor 'TikTok Notes'

Boston Dynamics' New Atlas Robot Is a Swiveling, Shape-Shifting Nightmare

Feds Appoint 'AI Doomer' To Run US AI Safety Institute

AltStore PAL Alternative App Marketplace Launches On iPhone In EU

Trump Media Shares Down 14% After Company Says Truth Social To Launch TV Streaming

Hackers Voice Cloned the CEO of LastPass For Attack

What Caused the Storm That Brought Dubai To a Standstill?

the register

NASA will send astronauts to patch up leaky ISS telescope

185K people's sensitive data in the pits after ransomware raid on Cherry Health

Admin alert: Copilot app lands on Windows Server 2022

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Google laying off staff again and moving some roles to 'hubs,' freeing up cash for AI investments

EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy

Novelty flip phone strips out almost every feature possible to be as boring as possible

Prolific phishing-made-easy emporium LabHost knocked offline in cyber-cop op

Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color, squishes ancient bug

AI PCs are here but a killer application for biz users? Nope

Valkey publishes release candidate and attracts new backer

Cisco creates architecture to improve security and sell you new switches

Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app

Singapore infosec boss warns China/West tech split will be bad for interoperability

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Taiwanese film studio snaps up Chinese surveillance camera specialist Dahua

Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash

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Psst, hey. It's the NSA. You want some AI security advice?

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Devaluing content created by AI is lazy and ignores history

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Google will pump more than $100B into AI, says DeepMind boss

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Fire in the Cisco! Networking giant's Duo MFA message logs stolen in phish attack

 

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