Comments on: Surviving A Slashdotting With a Celeron 466: My Slashdot Experience http://devnulled.com/content/2005/07/surviving-a-slashdotting-with-a-celeron-466-my-slashdot-experience/ devnulled provides news, tips, resources, and articles about various topics that software developers and engineers enjoy. Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:55:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Surviving A Slashdotting With a Celeron 466: My Slashdot Experience « See the Post http://devnulled.com/content/2005/07/surviving-a-slashdotting-with-a-celeron-466-my-slashdot-experience/#comment-189420 Surviving A Slashdotting With a Celeron 466: My Slashdot Experience « See the Post Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:18:11 +0000 http://devnulled.com/?p=407#comment-189420 [...] read more | digg story Posted by seethepost Filed in news [...] [...] read more | digg story Posted by seethepost Filed in news [...]

]]> By: Actual Technology News Blog » Surviving A Slashdotting With a Celeron 466: My Slashdot Experience http://devnulled.com/content/2005/07/surviving-a-slashdotting-with-a-celeron-466-my-slashdot-experience/#comment-173862 Actual Technology News Blog » Surviving A Slashdotting With a Celeron 466: My Slashdot Experience Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:25:21 +0000 http://devnulled.com/?p=407#comment-173862 [...] Interesting article how a Celeron 466 handled a slashdot with little sweat. He did make some config changes for this to work though, but there is some good tips.read more | digg story [...] [...] Interesting article how a Celeron 466 handled a slashdot with little sweat. He did make some config changes for this to work though, but there is some good tips.read more | digg story [...]

]]> By: Windows Home Server and a new kind of home server products at Thomas Nybergh’s pages http://devnulled.com/content/2005/07/surviving-a-slashdotting-with-a-celeron-466-my-slashdot-experience/#comment-161936 Windows Home Server and a new kind of home server products at Thomas Nybergh’s pages Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:16:58 +0000 http://devnulled.com/?p=407#comment-161936 [...] I also take for granted that WHS has some quirks making it barely usable for Unixy people, and by the way, what kind of an operating system requires a minimum of 512 megabytes of RAM and a Pentium III processor to sit on a network to serve a web interface and files? Again, one of my favorite examples of what real software can do, is this story by a guy whose Celeron 466 MHz box running FreeBSD almost survived the owner’s WordPress blog being featured on Slashdot. [...] [...] I also take for granted that WHS has some quirks making it barely usable for Unixy people, and by the way, what kind of an operating system requires a minimum of 512 megabytes of RAM and a Pentium III processor to sit on a network to serve a web interface and files? Again, one of my favorite examples of what real software can do, is this story by a guy whose Celeron 466 MHz box running FreeBSD almost survived the owner’s WordPress blog being featured on Slashdot. [...]

]]> By: Photogabble » Wordpress Processor Load http://devnulled.com/content/2005/07/surviving-a-slashdotting-with-a-celeron-466-my-slashdot-experience/#comment-93794 Photogabble » Wordpress Processor Load Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:26:52 +0000 http://devnulled.com/?p=407#comment-93794 [...] I never before thought about installing somthing like this, the idea that the content which my visitors would be viewing isn’t live troubled me slightly as I update my blog several times a day and like to think that as soon as I press publish it’s live. A silly notion I’m sure, but it did worry me none the less. After reading Brandon Harper’s article on Surviving A Slashdotting With a Celeron 466 and reading about wordpress optimisation on openswitch.org I was inspired to give this plugin a go because other than reducing the number of content based plugins I use there is very little else I can do to minimise the amount that apahce2 hits the mysql database. The benifit of this plugin is that it entirely removes the mysql interaction with the page for as long as you wish the page to be cached for. I chose a safe time of ten minutes however if one where to get dugg then a cache timeout of an hour or so would more likely be advisable as then the advantage would be felt for longer instead of ten minutes of low load and then a minute of high load as the page is cached again with no change. It would be nice to see how it handles new post and comments, and wether it updates the cache when they are created. [...] [...] I never before thought about installing somthing like this, the idea that the content which my visitors would be viewing isn’t live troubled me slightly as I update my blog several times a day and like to think that as soon as I press publish it’s live. A silly notion I’m sure, but it did worry me none the less. After reading Brandon Harper’s article on Surviving A Slashdotting With a Celeron 466 and reading about wordpress optimisation on openswitch.org I was inspired to give this plugin a go because other than reducing the number of content based plugins I use there is very little else I can do to minimise the amount that apahce2 hits the mysql database. The benifit of this plugin is that it entirely removes the mysql interaction with the page for as long as you wish the page to be cached for. I chose a safe time of ten minutes however if one where to get dugg then a cache timeout of an hour or so would more likely be advisable as then the advantage would be felt for longer instead of ten minutes of low load and then a minute of high load as the page is cached again with no change. It would be nice to see how it handles new post and comments, and wether it updates the cache when they are created. [...]

]]> By: Simon http://devnulled.com/content/2005/07/surviving-a-slashdotting-with-a-celeron-466-my-slashdot-experience/#comment-93771 Simon Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:29:35 +0000 http://devnulled.com/?p=407#comment-93771 A very interesting article, I have followed a couple of your suggestions and are currently benchmarking the improvments. Not likely that I will ever be dugg but it's always nice to know that ones server is ticking over the best it can. A very interesting article, I have followed a couple of your suggestions and are currently benchmarking the improvments. Not likely that I will ever be dugg but it’s always nice to know that ones server is ticking over the best it can.

]]> By: Thomas http://devnulled.com/content/2005/07/surviving-a-slashdotting-with-a-celeron-466-my-slashdot-experience/#comment-32006 Thomas Thu, 09 Nov 2006 02:52:45 +0000 http://devnulled.com/?p=407#comment-32006 Brandon, iThankyou for this informative post which actually was what made me want to try WordPress with WP-Cache. I'm not a computer scientist, but I find the whole idea of not caching dynamic content utterly bizarre, and I would never have stuck with a CMS that doesn't have any caching abilities to host my site on my home server. It's a fairly fast machine, an Athlon XP 1900+ running Linux, but trying out WordPress without caching made me feel unsafe every time I generated some reloads in my browser while watching top's real-time output... However, to whom it may concern, I run into a slight problem while trying to use WP-Cache 2.0 on WordPress 2, the feared blank/empty page error. I googled a bit and found <a href="http://www.bloggingblog.net/wp-cache-and-the-blank-page-problem/#comment-644" title="this solution" rel="nofollow"> to my problem, which turned out to be PHP5-related.</a> Brandon, iThankyou for this informative post which actually was what made me want to try WordPress with WP-Cache. I’m not a computer scientist, but I find the whole idea of not caching dynamic content utterly bizarre, and I would never have stuck with a CMS that doesn’t have any caching abilities to host my site on my home server. It’s a fairly fast machine, an Athlon XP 1900+ running Linux, but trying out WordPress without caching made me feel unsafe every time I generated some reloads in my browser while watching top’s real-time output…

However, to whom it may concern, I run into a slight problem while trying to use WP-Cache 2.0 on WordPress 2, the feared blank/empty page error. I googled a bit and found to my problem, which turned out to be PHP5-related.

]]> By: duel http://devnulled.com/content/2005/07/surviving-a-slashdotting-with-a-celeron-466-my-slashdot-experience/#comment-27469 duel Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:39:13 +0000 http://devnulled.com/?p=407#comment-27469 w3rd, slashd0t.0rg w3rd, slashd0t.0rg

]]> By: links for 2006-10-11 « Where Is All This Leading To? http://devnulled.com/content/2005/07/surviving-a-slashdotting-with-a-celeron-466-my-slashdot-experience/#comment-26291 links for 2006-10-11 « Where Is All This Leading To? Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:34:15 +0000 http://devnulled.com/?p=407#comment-26291 [...] Surviving A Slashdotting With a Celeron 466: My Slashdot Experience (tags: apache bsd config digg freebsd howto LAMP http load slashdot server php wordpress web performance) [...] [...] Surviving A Slashdotting With a Celeron 466: My Slashdot Experience (tags: apache bsd config digg freebsd howto LAMP http load slashdot server php wordpress web performance) [...]

]]> By: RealOpen IT - Open Source, Open Mind » Archives » High Availability Linux Apache cluster voor websites http://devnulled.com/content/2005/07/surviving-a-slashdotting-with-a-celeron-466-my-slashdot-experience/#comment-26258 RealOpen IT - Open Source, Open Mind » Archives » High Availability Linux Apache cluster voor websites Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:38:34 +0000 http://devnulled.com/?p=407#comment-26258 [...] Sterker nog, je kunt ook op een gewone, simpele Celeron@466Mhz een webserver maken die grote aantallen Slashdot-bezoekers kan overleven. Je moet alleen de webserver en ondersteunende software goed afstellen… [...] [...] Sterker nog, je kunt ook op een gewone, simpele Celeron@466Mhz een webserver maken die grote aantallen Slashdot-bezoekers kan overleven. Je moet alleen de webserver en ondersteunende software goed afstellen… [...]

]]> By: » The Difference Between Retiring Unix and Windows Servers : devnulled: a blog by brandon harper http://devnulled.com/content/2005/07/surviving-a-slashdotting-with-a-celeron-466-my-slashdot-experience/#comment-26235 » The Difference Between Retiring Unix and Windows Servers : devnulled: a blog by brandon harper Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:19:33 +0000 http://devnulled.com/?p=407#comment-26235 [...] The last time it was taken down, it was to move to another location in the building. The worst problem I had with it other than trying to get Java 1.5 on it is explaining to the Security Department what cvsup is and why I needed firewall ports opened up so I could update the system. I’ve had the same experience many times as I’ve been using FreeBSD to host sites at home since 1999 or so, in fact I still have an infamous old 466 Celeron running FreeBSD sitting around on a shelf, unplugged. [...] [...] The last time it was taken down, it was to move to another location in the building. The worst problem I had with it other than trying to get Java 1.5 on it is explaining to the Security Department what cvsup is and why I needed firewall ports opened up so I could update the system. I’ve had the same experience many times as I’ve been using FreeBSD to host sites at home since 1999 or so, in fact I still have an infamous old 466 Celeron running FreeBSD sitting around on a shelf, unplugged. [...]

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