Archives

This is another wonderful setup that I’ve found myself using rather than the traditional Apache & mod_php setup. What is Nginx? Nginx (pronounced engine-x) is a fast, powerful, lightweight web server. I won’t go into the theory under-the-hood, but it’s focus is high concurrency with low memory usage. So while Apache is more robust in …

I’m deploying some new servers today, and I realized I hadn’t documented my steps on my blog. So here are a few posts detailing my setup process. What is Percona Server? Percona Server is a fork of MySQL Server. So what does that mean? For the past few years, MySQL has had some “interesting” developments …