Using Linux-HA for High Availability with Gentoo and Linux-VServer
In my production setup, I don't have a load balancer. This may be changed at some point, assuming that we can find one we like for the price we want to purchase it for, but in the mean time, I've been...
View ArticleOne way to unemerge lots of unneeded packages on Gentoo Linux
As part of a recent project, I had installed a lot of packages on a separate machine to test my configuration. As is common, with Gentoo, you want to run the following before you actually emerge...
View ArticleUpgrading an OLD Gentoo Machine.
I'm in the process of re-installing a pretty old machine with the latest Gentoo. I've got a shared NFS directory with portage and all my machines are using a packages directory. After one machine...
View ArticleUsing piped svndumpfilter commands to separate an svn repository
According to the documentation for svndumpfilter, you can include one subcommand when filtering a dumped repository. Suppose you have a repository that has a path "/some/path" that you'd like to...
View ArticleHow to virtual host load balanced websites with ldirectord and Apache
I posted a while back on getting Heartbeat set up to add reliability to websites. After a few weeks of experience with the system, I thought I'd add a few additional tips on making the setup more...
View ArticleCan Google’s Adsense bot understand gzipped html pages?
During my experiments with WP-Super-cache, I noticed a strange thing happen to my Adsense ads. A short while after getting gzip compression to work properly, all my ad content had foreign characters...
View ArticleKeeping a process running
Have you ever had a process that dies on occasion? For me, I hate that situation and prefer to fix the software as opposed to have a monitor that restarts the process when it dies. I've run into a case...
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