The process of moving clients from Apache to Nginx is nice and simple except for the ‘down for maintenance’ page. This is my solution to that problem.
So, um yeah, it’s been a little while since my last blog entry. This is to say that I’m still here, things have been too hectic but I’m starting to get a handle on everything again.
I was already quite busy when everything stepped up a couple of gears around February due to going into business [...]
Over the weekend I moved this blog from being hosted on my Dreamhost account to one of my 256mb Slicehost servers.
I’ve done this mainly to stop paying for hosting twice, but also because if I’m going to be talking about performance I can’t possibly have a slow blog and my options were limited with the [...]
So far I’ve configured Nginx to handle file uploads by caching the file to disk and telling rails where it is, rather than passing it through in the request, not fun with large files. Now to do the reverse. Instead of Rails sending files to users thru Nginx, Rails can tell Nginx what file to [...]
