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Monday, October 27th, 2008

At this point I thought I’d take a moment to go over how this site is powered.

First off, there’s the VPS from Linode (Linode stands for Linux Node) which comes with the following specifications:

360MiB RAM
12GiB storage space
200GiB data transfers per month
Full SSH access (root)
Managed DNS
(and more…)
$19.95 per month (about 14€)

I’d say that that’s pretty good value for money… So far I’ve been extremely happy with the Linode VPS, no glitches or breakdowns and it’s fairly zippy (even though I’m in Europe and the server is in the US). Oh, and when you order a VPS you get to choose which data centre you want it to be in.

If you do decide to get a VPS from Linode, I’d appreciate it if you used my referral code:

632bae5e8fd45745396cd410c14d94771105bc6a

I’ll be honest about it: I get $20 credit if somebody gets a VPS with that code (and keeps it for 90 days)…

Well, that covers the hardware, so to speak.
(more…)

Tags: inside workings, vps
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New Server

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

If you’ve been wondering why this blog has been so quite of late (again), here comes the answer. I’ve just finished the migration from my firend’s VPS at Network Redux to a brand new VPS of my own at Linode.com (open inline). I also migrated from Apache to Lighttpd at the same time (boy, does Lighty use less resources!).

I still have to do some optimizations and some other minor setup, but by and large everything now works.

There’s a few more details about the setup on the About page.

No action is required by you, the user. We’re still available at the same address and all user accounts have been successfully migrated. If you do experience any problems, please leave a comment below or contact me at
webadmin ( a t ) proliferationoflinux ( d o t ) org.

Tags: internal, linode
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Apologies

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Sorry for the lack of posts over the past few days; I’ve been busy with some changes to the backend of this blog and my other site. Hopefully I’ll be able to get back to writing proper posts from today.

Tags: internal
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Maintenance scheduled 3rd October.

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

This blog and its sister site, Draco Vulgaris, will be in maintenance for a period today, and perhaps tomorrow. I apologise for the disruption, but we will be back shortly with an improved backend.

Tags: internal, maintenance
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Redesign, yet again

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Welcome to the new Proliferation of Linux. Yes, this blog has undergone a redesign. I’m continuing my tradition of using GPL-licensed themes on the site, and so this new one is based on the Aeros theme by TheBuckmaker.com.

Hope you like it…

Oh, And if you’re unlucky enough to be using Internet Explorer, I’m afraid that this theme won’t look quite as nice as it does on Gecko, KHTMl, or WebKit based browsers. This is due to the technical limitations of Internet Explorer (it doesn’t support rounded corners or transparencies).

Tags: internal, theme
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Plone + Lighttpd + Varnish follow-up

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Earlier I posted about my efforts to get a Plone site running, together with Varnish for caching and Lighttpd for Load balancing. Our plans have now come to fruition and the site is running in its full glory at http://hhlinuxclub.org.

We’re still planning on producing a tutorial based on our experience and hope that the site will be of use to outsiders as well.

Tags: hhlc, lighttpd, lighty, plone, varnish
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Plone + Lighttpd + Varnish

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

I’ve spent the day with a friend of mine seting up the backend for our university’s Linux Club website. The website will use Plone with caching by Varnish and load balancing with Lighttpd. This setup seems to be working quite nicely now and in time, when the website is finished we’ll try and publish a tutorial of some sort on the site. I’ll be sure to keep everyone posted about how this develops. The next step will be creating a new design for the site.

Tags: hhlc, lighttpd, lighty, plone, varnish, vps
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Thank You Slashdot

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

If this site has been acting up or exceptionally slow for you during the last 24 hours, the reason was probably that a link to the Dell sub-notebook story got posted on the front page of Slashdot. This resulted in a whopping 3.5GiB of traffic during the last 24 hours. As you can imagine, this was not a server load we anticipated having.

Tags: slashdot effect
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Mobile version now online

Friday, August 8th, 2008

You can now access a mobile version of this page by going to proliferationoflinux.org/wap or by clicking on the ‘Mobile version‘ link in the right sidebar.

Tags: internal, mobile, wap
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