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Friday, April 13th, 2007

the number of servers you run …

Well reading popeys blog entry on how many servers he has, and what he uses them for made me feel a bit better than I did previously, about running more than one server of my own for personal use. I only have three servers, and a workstation and a laptop; maybe I don’t waste as much electricity as I thought I did

• etch.thefraggle.com - Debian etch, xen vps from bitfolk; general webserver for www.thefraggle.com, and master mail server.
• sarge.thefraggle.com - Debian etch, xen vps from bitfolk; run’s IRCd’s for blitzed.org and nixhelp.org and tertiary mail exchanger.
• beastie.thefraggle.com - FreeBSD-6.2-stable on an old p2 400mhz 128mb ram; used to run an ircd for nixhelp, and thefraggle.com website, but now has been retired to being a development machine and tertiary mail exchanger.
• laptop - centrino duo 1.7ghz 1gb ram; work laptop with winxp / debian etch for work stuff

There’s actually another box there, my dads p4 3ghz, that I have pretty much nicked off him for day to day internetting :). I suppose the fact that I have three servers kind of means I am pretty geeky?

Would be interesting if anyone reading this also commented with what they use :).

Monday, April 9th, 2007

http load balancing with squid

A while back at work I had to create a configuration for an internal squid http accelerator, and thought “hey, wouldn’t it be neat if I could load balance thefraggle.com with this method”.

Now, usually Squid is used to act as a caching proxy server, which means that client http requests are sent to the proxy server, the proxy server then goes out onto the web and attempts to grab the request, and returns the entry back to the client; in the process caching the pages (depending on the way the cache has been set up).

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