Accelerating Drupal with Nginx and Memcache
Submitted by John Arundel on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 19:14As of 06/16/2013 - 11:00, this link is reporting 404 - Not Found.
Taking advantage of Nginx's direct Memcache integration by delivering Drupal pages from cache - even for authenticated users.
7 Secrets to Successfully Scaling with Scalr on Amazon
Submitted by John Arundel on Mon, 03/22/2010 - 18:15
Scalr is an auto-scaling solution for EC2, a bit like RightScale, but cheaper. They give you some nice infrastructure like a MySQL master/slave replication setup, and distributed cron jobs.
Preparing Ubuntu Server for hosting Drupal
Submitted by John Arundel on Mon, 03/22/2010 - 13:22As of 06/17/2013 - 11:00, this link is reporting 404 - Not Found.
A checklist for security and performance tweaks you'll want to apply when building a new Ubuntu box to host Drupal sites. Most of these will apply to CentOS as well, but the package names may be slightly different.
Testing network throughput with iperf
Submitted by John Arundel on Sun, 03/21/2010 - 14:01
iperf is a great little tool for quickly measuring the network bandwidth between two machines.
Puppetmasterd and Passenger
Submitted by John Arundel on Sun, 03/21/2010 - 13:23
Great article on configuring the Puppet server to use Passenger and Apache, with a complete example vhost definition for puppetmasterd.
