I can hardly wait to get it FreeBSD 7.0 installed on it and setup a nice vhost system with Lighttpd + PostgreSQL. It’s gonna be awsome.
The server I’m currently using is ‘only’ Dual core XEON w/ 3.5Gb ram, and some random SATA drives, so the improvement should be huge

I’m quite excited, because its going to be my first server ever without Apache and MySQL installed. Or well, atleast until some stupid customer or what not (Biesbjerg?) demands it

If I can find the time, I will write a guide on how I’m going to configure my server (Lighttpd, PostgreSQL, Dovecot + sendmail, quota, fast-cgi php5), it might be useful for someone

Let me know if it has any interest to you guys

Specs

- Dell PE 1950 III
- PE1950 PCIE Riser (2 Slots) 1 S
- Quad Core Xeon E5410 (2.33GHz, 2x6MB, 1333MHz FSB) (SMP supported)
- 4GB (2x2GB Dual Rank DIMMs) 667MHz FBD (up to 32 GB)
- 3x 146GB SAS 10k 2.5″ HDPE1950 III 2.5″ HDD support chassis
- Perc 6i Integrated Controller
- 8X DVD-ROM Drive IDE
- PE1950 III Non-Redundant Power Supply No Power Cord
- TCP/IP Offload Engine 2P
- Broadcom TCP/IP Offload Engine functionality (TOE) Not Enabled
- PE1950 OpenManage kit and FI Driver
- CFI EMEA Service. (SV-Hi) OR PowerEdge, RAID/partition
- RAID 1 Single Container
- RAID 0 (1 HDD)
- Rack Rails Static Rapid 1 S
- PE1950 III – C2,MSSR0,ADD IN PERC5i/6i/SAS6iR, min 2 / max 2 or 4

/Jippi

I’m working on some security enhancements for my new website project, and in that progress, I have moved away from Apache2.2.3 and now using Lighttpd instead. Lighttpd does not use the same method of invoking php as apache does (mod_php vs. fast-cgi php).

In my eager to make the application as secure and locked down as possible, I went berserk in the php-cgi.ini file and turned on just about any security feature I could find (not safemode!), including the innocent looking switch called “open_basedir”.

That was rather late in the night, so when I resumed my work the following day, I have long forgotten about all the fancy security settings I had enabled in php.

A few hours ago I noticed that the complete render time for the front page suddenly was ~2seconds(!) – and comparing with apache’s load time for the same page (0.9s) I was quite disappointed at lighttpd and fastcgi, but refused to give up my new found love without a fair trial.

I attacked google with full force without finding any useful resources that might be able to explain my issue.. I was quite sure it was APC that did not function well in a fastcgi environment – and therefore my google madness was focused around the keywords “apc + fastcgi”

While chatting to PatrickDK in the #lighttpd channel @ freenode, it suddenly hit me – let’s try to disable everything I have “fixed” last night – starting with XDebug, some 3rd party php modules (syck, memcache, simplexml, fileinfo) – and then, open_basedir flag.

And with just one line commented out in my php-cgi.ini file, the render time went from 2.4 to 0.5 seconds !!(!!)

So just a little note to you guys out there, beware of the open_basedir setting in a setup where you include many files, it is a rather costly feature to use. And when running fastcgi php in chroot()ed setup, its not really required anyway

Its another +1 for lighty and fastcgi

And yes, I’m aware that open_basedir is slow because it has to validate EVERY file or path you work with inside php to check if its within the scope defined.

This time around it was more an impulze to buy some books, so I hope I will end up as satisfied as last time I purchased some books from them.

• Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications
• RESTful Web Services
• High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers: Essential Knowledge for Front-end Engineers
• PostgreSQL (Developers Library)
• The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks

I will probably give a short review of the books once I have read them

welcome to my new blog.

This blog will mainly be about CakePHP and everything related to that

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