Update (2011-03-24): In this article. we’re discussing how we leveraged the smart Russian-built Web server Nginx to stop a DDoS attack. We’ve also experimented quite a bit with Varnish, another fine half-Danish half-Norwegian open source software, as a DDoS mitigation tool. It can be made to form the same constellation that we used for Nginx [...]
In this article, we are going to cover one trick that is used in Web social circles to weather short-lived traffic storms. In most cases, servers collapse due to the server-side processing that needs to occur to produce the HTML that sent to the browser. Whether the server-side script is written in PHP, Ruby, Python, [...]
Apache vs Litespeed: Apache 95% faster than Litespeed
