Passenger (mod_rails) with Mephisto
With what appears at first glance as a solution to the "complicated" problems of hosting Rails apps Passenger could make the Rails world an even happier place to live. Less administration and more coding.
Read the rest of Passenger (mod_rails) with Mephisto April 22nd, 2008 1 comments »OpenX (OpenAds) 2.4.x Performance
Well, if a server is going to turn on you suddenly like a good dog gone bad I guess having something of a clue as to why is better than none. Today we had our largest spike in traffic in several months and everything held up fine, except the OpenX server wigged out shooting load up to 190! Let's see what you can do if this happens to you.
Read the rest of OpenX (OpenAds) 2.4.x Performance March 10th, 2008 0 comments »OpenAds 0.3.30-alpha to 2.4.2 Upgrade
There's a nice clear upgrade path from 0.3.31-alpha-pr3 but not from 0.3.31-alpha. Thankfully OpenAds is a well written app and rolling up to 0.3.31-alpha-pr3 wasn't much of a problem.
EDIT : Totally not true any more with the 2.4.4 release.
Read the rest of OpenAds 0.3.30-alpha to 2.4.2 Upgrade February 21st, 2008 0 comments »CakePHP on Dreamhost Linux
Really not that difficult, but there are a couple of trip-up spots.
Read the rest of CakePHP on Dreamhost Linux February 14th, 2008 0 comments »