Posts Tagged ‘apache’

Monit: The Cure for Crappy Software.

I currently manage more than 100 instances of Apache.  Mostly LAMP with some Ruby and Passenger thrown in here and there.  Of all these instances, I’ve never really had to concern myself with leaky apps that soak up memory and don’t give it back until restart.  The first  time I ran into this was with Mongrel, [...]

Vampire Chronicles, The Conclusion

Well, our fun with the undead is over. If you’re not caught up, read the following 2 articles first: Part 1 Part 2 I decided a couple of days ago to just make the change global as it seemed like there was an increase in hotlinking to Meat’s site just in general. The vampire clan [...]

Using mod_rewrite as Your Wooden Stake (follow up)

Well it was an eventful day on the vampire site from yesterday’s mod_rewrite adventure.  It seems we’ve created a bit of a stir in the underworld and there is a potential coup about to unfold.  A quick check of the evil von Carstein’s profile shows that he has been posting about his new avatar.  If [...]

Using mod_rewrite as Your Wooden Stake… or, Image Hijacking for the Layman

I was helping out my boy MeatBaron who runs a stock trading web site recently.  He was concerned that Google wasn’t hitting his sitemap so I dove into his logs looking for traces of Google coming by.  They were there and he was happy and that really should have been the end of it.  I [...]