It was a bad day. A lot of bad stuff happened. And I'd love to forget it all. But I don't. Not ever. Because this is what I do. Every time, every day, every second, this: On five, we're bringing down the government.
Wednesday, September 16
All Onions Go To Heaven
Really.
Really.
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Friday, September 04
Sometime Simpler Is Better
Two virtual machines, each with 3 cores and 4GB RAM, running CentOS 7.
[Edit: Wait, Kururu is on CentOS 6. Well, near enough.]
Kururu is running under OpenVZ:
While Rere is running on KVM:
Also, Kururu didn't have 3 cores and 4GB of RAM. It had 1 core, and 1GB. I changed it to take this screenshot - but check the uptime.
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Good News, Irritating News, Great News
A few days ago I signed up with Wable, a new VPS service run by the company that hosts most of the mee.nu servers. They were having a lifetime half-price sale on their entry-level package, just $8 per month for 2GB of RAM and 50GB of disk, which you could then split across 1-3 separate VPSes as needed.
A few days ago I signed up with Wable, a new VPS service run by the company that hosts most of the mee.nu servers. They were having a lifetime half-price sale on their entry-level package, just $8 per month for 2GB of RAM and 50GB of disk, which you could then split across 1-3 separate VPSes as needed.
Today I saw a special offer that went a step further and gave you a bonus 4GB of RAM, 30GB of SSD, and 2 VPSes if you signed up right away.
Dammit. Nothing spoils a good deal faster than a better deal you can't have.
I clicked on the promo code anyway... And it added the bonus to my existing account.
Nice.
Underlying hardware is the Intel E5-2643 v3, one of the fastest server CPUs available for single-threaded workloads. As long as your hardware node doesn't get overloaded, that should really fly. Crazy good performance for the price.
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Thursday, September 03
Well, Now...
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Wednesday, September 02
It's A Machine That Goes Ding
How to build a perfect website.
more...
How to build a perfect website.
DO:
- Use a replicated document database - MongoDB 3, TokuMX, or RethinkDB. Use Riak if you know you need Riak.
Caveat: If you are running a transactional operation, use a transactional database. - Use uWSGI as a server.
- Use Nginx as a proxy.
- Use Redis or LMDB as an intelligent, structured cache.
- Use Python or Ruby.
- Use HTML5 semantic elements.
- Use Mustache templates.
- Use Semantic UI, or, if you want to use pre-packaged templates, Bootstrap.
- Use Amazon EC2 for operations.
- Use Amazon EBS SSD volumes for system storage.
- Use Amazon S3 for file storage.
- Use Amazon Route 53 for DNS.
- Use Google Nearline for backups.
- Use RunAbove object storage for large downloads.
- Use SSL/TLS.
- Use Pushstate with jQuery to streamline page loads.
- Use RabbitMQ if you need a message queue.
- Use Elasticsearch if you need better search.
- Use CDNJS.
- Use PBKDF2, SCRYT, or BCRYPT for passwords.
- Ignore rare edge cases. If you worry about IE6, you'll never launch.
DON'T:
- Use PHP or Node.JS.
- Use a heavyweight Javascript client framework unless you know precisely why you need it.
- Use templates that mix code and layout.
- Ignore common edge cases. If your site looks lousy on an iPad, you have a problem.
And yes, we don't currently score very well on this list. Knowing what to do doesn't automatically grant the time in which to do it.
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