Update (2011-02-16): If you’re interested in running Varnish with cPanel, UNIXY has created a cPanel Varnish plugin. Our Varnish VCL configuration performs much better than Litespeed. Read more about it here: http://www.unixy.net/varnish Update (2010-10-09): Should you be interested in a managed vBulletin dedicated server know that UNIXy has built a system that is ideal for [...]
My interest in NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) has picked up quite a bit as of late. This technology has a huge potential for application in large scale Web hosting and Internet solutions. In brief, NUMA is a technology that was conceived to get around bus contention in general. What this means is that, with NUMA, [...]
How else would we attract and keep customers? Does it mean that we have to offer better servers? Is it better uptime? Or is it better service? You bet! It is a difficult feat because one has to keep a perfect record in such competitive environment. Not only do we need a perfect track record [...]
We have had great success with Mediawiki running behind Varnish, a proxy / web accelerator. The role of Varnish is to cache as many requests as possible. This helps alleviate resource consumption on the server such as CPU, memory, and disk, which in turn greatly improves performance and browser responsiveness. With Varnish in place, the [...]
