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Download article as PDF In this post we (UNIXY) are going to share our experience fending off a large Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for a client. Generally, Website owners deal with DDoS attacks on their own. There are equipment and solutions vendors cater to these owners and guarantee protection against these kind of [...]

Apache vs Litespeed: Apache 95% faster than Litespeed

In this article, we shall outline the steps required to build a private Content Delivery or Distribution Network (CDN) using Varnish Cache, Nginx, BIND, and GeoIP. The goal is to build a CDN using free, readily available software but most importantly spend the least amount of funds possible.

Download article as PDF There are many types of clusters. The one I am going to cover in this post is a Web cluster. In other words, it is a cluster of several servers built to serve Web pages. It is a made up of Web servers, database servers, and file servers. You may ask, [...]

Download article as PDF We are well ahead of target to achieve a 99.99% uptime using our geographical failover solution. We have put our failover solution live online for the whole world to see. Do pay a visit to the website when you get a chance! It is located here: http://www.cpanelfailover.net Cheers!

Download article as PDF We are very excited to announce that the failover challenge is live at http://www.cpanelfailover.net. Be part of it!

October 11, 2009 • Posted in: Challenge • No Comments
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