Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 10:18 AM

Simplifying Web Framework Deployment on Shared Hosting

On Dreamhost freaking out because they can’t get Rails deployed reliably.

purefiction.net / Friday, February 22, 2008 at 10:16 PM

Process title support for Mongrel

Constantly updates the the process title ($0) with something like: “mongrel_rails [10010/2/358]: handling 127.0.0.1: HEAD /feed/calendar/global/91/6de4”. Let’s you monitor backends with ps and top.

switchpipe.org / Sunday, February 03, 2008 at 08:48 PM

SwitchPipe - Process Manager and Proxy for Rapid Web App Deployment

Peter Cooper scratches the deployment problem itch.

varnish.projects.linpro.no / Sunday, January 13, 2008 at 07:33 AM

ArchitectNotes - Varnish

“I have spent many years working on the FreeBSD kernel, and only rarely did I venture into userland programming, but when I had occation to do so, I invariably found that people programmed like it was still 1975.”

bob.pythonmac.org / Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 03:25 PM

Reverse proxy roundup

Bob Ippolito wrote up some pros and cons to reverse proxy implementations in different servers a few months back. I don’t think much of it is out of date at this point but nginx isn’t represented.

blog.ianbicking.org / Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 03:17 PM

What PHP Deployment Gets Right

Ian takes a look at some of the attributes of PHP’s deployment model, why they work so well (for PHP), and why other environments have such a hard time duplicating them.

al3x.net / Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 12:35 PM

Shared Hosting is a Ghetto

“The constraints, the instability, and the unpredictability of a shared hosting environment are a big part of the reason why the web hosting business is moving towards virtualization everywhere you look. Big kids need their own sandboxes to play in.”