Syntactic sugar

What impact do modules have on a high-performance webserver? A LOT! (though that would not be a suprise)

I’ve been playing with a new webserver for a week now. It’s a brand new Dell PowerEdge 980, with Xeon Quadcore (2.4ghz), SAS-raid1-sata (7200rpm) and 4 GB of ECC-ram. Should be enough for a relatively large website with high concurrency.. The application I write do not cause a lot of Mysql-queries, I try to cache as much as possible, the real performance-gain for me is getting PHP5 to run faster. So I installed the machine and got to work on some stress-tests.

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buTTon Apache, FreeBSD, PHP, Webhosting Apache, extensions, FreeBSD, Jails, PHP

Hi there.. visitor! Welcome to this blog. If you’re into Javascript, PHP, XML, XSL, Ruby on Rails and web-development in general, you’ve come to the right place. I’ll try to post progress of my daily development-routine as freelance webdeveloper. It might not be rocket-science, or maybe it is, I don’t care. Just learn from it, as I did from other geeks posting their dev-stories onto their blogs:)

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