Amazon’s persistent storage beta program for Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) has been unleashed on the general public. I’ve been hanging out to play with this for a while and will duplicate any tests I perform on Slicehost servers with comparable EC2 servers with EBS. Since I’m also essentially comparing two different providers, I’ll look at [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Posted in Performance Project Tagged amazon, backup, cloud computing, ebs, ec2, high availability, performance 1 Comment
Nginx upload awesomeness
I’ve been a bit busy earning my keep for the last week, hence the lack of progress on by rails performance tuning project. I will share with you though something I’ve been doing that’s really cool.
A website I’ve been working on allows users to upload files of any size. Let me just repeat that - [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous Tagged apache, file transfer, haproxy, nginx, nginx module, upload 2 Comments
Finishing off my base Ruby on Rails install
So I got sidetracked with Apache in my last post. Here I’m going to finish up the install basics sans automated deployment. At the moment I’m just jumping onto the server and going:
git pull
mongrel_rails cluster::restart
All my server is showing at the moment is this. It’s amazing I know and people will talk about it for [...]
Posted in Performance Project Tagged apache, capistrano, configuration, log, mongrel, production log analyzer 3 Comments
Configuring and watching Apache.
You may have noted that I installed the apache2-mpm-worker package rather than apache2-mpm-prefork even though I’m using a VPS to host the site. If you google them you’ll find recommendations to only use worker on big beefed-up servers. The reason for my decision is described in the first paragraph on worker’s webpage:
By using threads to [...]
Posted in Performance Project Tagged apache, apache mpm event, apache mpm prefork, apache mpm worker, apache2ctl, configuration, mod_info, mod_status, virtualhost, vps Leave a comment
