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When Server Load Goes to the Moon – Slicehost ‘resize’ Comes to the Rescue

One of the member sites of The Buzz Media ran a story this morning that caused the load on the host server to go pas ‘11′… waaaay way past ‘11′ – to 257.89 to be exact according to ‘top’ (above). This host server was not in a load-balanced configuration when the rush happened, we weren’t able [...]

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Programming a Simple Client/Server Application with Ruby

Being able to add some sort of client/server model to your programs is pretty essential these days, and Ruby does a fine job making your life easier. For this article, I’ll show you a quick, down-and-dirty way of getting a very simple server up and running and a client that will say “Hello Server World” and [...]

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Sockso Personal Music Server

If you have ever wanted to have access to your personal music collection from anywhere on the road Sockso Personal Music Server just might be the answer you were looking for. All that is required for the installation is Java and a Windows, Linux, or Mac box to run the server on. The software has [...]

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Using Apache Virtual Hosts and ProxyPass Together

I recently ran into a situation where I had a server with Apache on it that was already hosting a few PHP sites using VirtualHost mappings, but I now wanted to add a new Tomcat-hosted site to the same machine. In a way, what I wanted was to setup a new VirtualHost entry on Apache to [...]

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