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 [...]
Tag Archives: nginx
Wordpress with Nginx on Slicehost
Using Nginx to send files with x-accel-redirect
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 [...]
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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 - [...]
