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Comment on Amazon AWS Outage by Amazon S3 Outage | Robert Accettura’s Fun With Wordage

Amazon S3 Outage | Robert Accettura’s Fun With Wordage — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:14:06 +0000

[...] Varnish. There’s a brief description here, and a more detailed breakdown here. According to Barry Abrahamson, WordPress.com does 1500 image requests per second across and 80-100 are served through S3. They [...]

Comment on Load Balancer Update by Nginx Hacking Tips | My Digital World

Nginx Hacking Tips | My Digital World — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:22:46 +0000

[...] more than a million sites; more than doubling in numbers. The WordPress blogging system recently converted all of its load balancers to nginx, using the upstream hash module to serve 8-9 thousand requests [...]

Comment on Load Balancer Update by Nginx Hacking Tips

Nginx Hacking Tips — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:18:05 +0000

Comment on Load Balancer Update by Random Musings » NginX Reporting for Duty

Random Musings » NginX Reporting for Duty — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:42:53 +0000

[...] from Jamie’s pointer, in doing the initial research, what got me excited was reading that WordPress.com had switched to nginx for their load balancing (and might eventually switch for their web serving as well), and that Fastmail is using nginx for [...]

Comment on mod_auth_mysql and phpass by Jud

Jud — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:12:29 +0000

This is awesome indeed — how about a Win32 build?

Comment on Load Balancer Update by fak3r

fak3r — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:33:48 +0000

Barry - I appreciate your answers, having real-world examples of nginx and varnish give us the answers we need - this is a great resource.

Comment on NYC at Night photoblog by Erin Faye

Erin Faye — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:46:56 +0000

Brother,

Your pictures are great. You are very talented, I am impressed! Looking forward to seeing more soon! Miss you and love you! Can’t wait for labor day weekend!

Comment on NYC at Night photoblog by katm

katm — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:24:20 +0000

Those are beautiful pictures Barry. I’m enjoying using Monotone for a photoblog to go with my ESL teaching blog.

Comment on Load Balancer Update by 嘰米咖啡館 » Apache 市佔率 [備存參考]

嘰米咖啡館 » Apache 市佔率 [備存參考] — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:59:57 +0000

Comment on Load Balancer Update by mike503

mike503 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:40:17 +0000

Wackamole would be a decent replacement for heartbeat for managing IPs it sounds like.

So in theory you could use Wackamole+nginx for Active/Passive(+more) nginx instances and Wackamole would handle all the IP switching and skip using LVS/ldirectord|keepalived/heartbeat, right?