I’m a Linux advocate myself. My servers run Linux. I use Linux primarily for my work. At home, I either use Linux or my iMac. While I can get all the services I’m happy with, I have to realize that some people like services that are harder to find and host with Linux. I’ve come [...]

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I just updated all my blogs to WordPress 2.7. I like the new admin interface. The upgrade was pleasantly easy and quick.

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For a couple years now, I’ve been learning and applying various tricks for developing and hosting multiple Python web sites on my development machines. During that time, I made a migration to Mac OS X. Most setup files for python applications and libraries work out of the box on the Linux distributions I’ve tried. For [...]

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A while back, I found myself running out of hardware and wanting to host more sites than I currently was. In addition, I wanted to create a little bit more redundancy for some of the services I host. At the time, I was hosting a number of services with Xen. One physical server hosted 3 [...]

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Have you ever had a process that dies on occasion? For me, I hate that situation and prefer to fix the software as opposed to have a monitor that restarts the process when it dies. I’ve run into a case lately however, that has defied me for a solution to my dying process. I think [...]

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I posted a while back on getting Heartbeat set up to add reliability to websites. After a few weeks of experience with the system, I thought I’d add a few additional tips on making the setup more reliable. There are already a few good guides on getting heartbeat set up. You could also read my [...]

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