One of the servers I run has FreeBSD 10. It hosts a high traffic Magento site. Magento being a very heavy application, requires a dedicated server. The site’s performance is very bad when it is hosted on VPS — or perhaps that depends on provider / needs tuning. Not my [...]

GlusterFS is a clustered file system that can be used when you want to share the content across different machines which can be accomplished by NFS as well. But the difference is, NFS failover is hard. In GlusterFS, you can add two servers known as bricks in Gluster’s terminology on [...]

A post after almost a year. But finally I have something new to post. Linux Virtual Server is commonly employed for load balancing between multiple servers. The load balancer and real servers share a common IP address called virtual IP. There are three methods for using LVS – Direct Routing, [...]

If you haven’t worked with uWSGI yet for setting up applications of different kinds – let me tell you it’s a Swiss knife. It supports applications written in Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl and recently Java and Go too. One tool to run a lot of stuff – that means life [...]

About 2 months ago, I had a spare VPS at my host, Hetzner. So I decided to play with FreeBSD which was being offered for Hetzner servers and VPSes.That’s how the whole thing started. I didn’t have much problems getting the concepts because it belongs to *nix family of OSes [...]