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In this article I will focus on how to squeeze (No, not the SID/testing release of Debian) the last drop of juice from your Apache2-installation with small measurements, focusing on PHP performance. And if you’re really serious you might want to look into my articles about Varnish as well! Welcome to the world of caching dynamic data! Not really, just some parts of it… Continue reading ‘Benchmarking opcode php-cachers with Apache2 on Debian Lenny’ »

In this article i will i will focus on how to install, configure and setup Nginx. Nginx is a popular web server, load balancer and reverse caching proxy for many high traffic sites. Personally I prefer to use Apache2 with proper configuration and Varnish as frontend. In some cases you might want to use Nginx as frontend for compressing data after it has been received from the backend server, either to ease the load on the backend servers or because the backeds does not support this feature, as is the case with Varnish. Continue reading ‘Setting up nginx on Debian Lenny’ »

Due to the strict rules of Debian many of the packages in stable releases are very old. In some cases though we want to run the latest version of a program, mainly due to new features and increased speed. The latest version of Varnish under Debian Lenny’s repositories is 1.1.2 (apt-cache show varnish), but in most cases we’d want to run the latest, especially with rapidly developed programs like Varnish. Varnish 2.0.6 is alos available in the Debian repository for SID/Squeeze or via backports. Continue reading ‘Setting up Varnish 2.0.6 on Debian Lenny’ »