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At Project Fondue we've always used the venerable Apache for our webserver and up until now we didn't have anything special set-up for serving static assets. For a while now I've wanted to move to using Nginx to serve static content as it's generally considered to perform well, it's nice to use and has a low memory footprint.
In this post we take a look at what software was used to build this set-up and how it all goes together.
Here's a really simple way of getting a notification when your disk space is running low by using a simple Python script in a cron job.
The idea is to configure a script with a threshold at which point if your free disk space is less that "n" percent you'll get an email telling you that you're running low on disk space.
Read the full post on “Getting an Early Warning of Low Disk Space”
We've recently started using Loggerhead for branch browsing as the redmine support for bazaar is a little lacking. We also wanted to provide a way to expose our open-source projects to the world.
We've been using Text Link Ads (TLA) on some of our sites for a while now. It's a great service which allows publishers to sell sponsored links on their sites and has helped us pay our hosting bills to date. Once signed up you include sponsored links on your site via a server side script which they provide. They provide a number of different solutions - for common blogging platforms including Wordpress and Movable Type as well as straight PHP. Unfortunately they don't provide a solution for use with any other language so our use of Python restricted our use of the service.
Google Chrome Frame is a plugin released by Google designed to provide the Google Chrome Browser engine inside of a frame in IE 6,7 and 8.
Read the full post on “Google Chrome Frame — good or bad for the web?”