Archive for the ‘Sysadm’ Category

Absolutely unscientific comparison of django performance with different caching backends

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Image via WikipediaSetup: dead simple django application, returning a template stored in a file as a root page. Template has no executable code. The server is started as FastCGI (10 children) and server through nginx. Hardware - IBM T42 with 1GB under linux, kde, firefox, thunderbird, emacs, openoffice and bunch of ...

Interchangeable hardware or “home cloud”

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Yesterday my border router in the home network crashed. It was a P4 PC under Linux with several network cards routing a traffic between three Internet connections (yes, I'm paranoid), my home network and my house network. That morning either CPU or motherboard fried and... Now I'm thinking about something more interchangeable than ...