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Rackspace Disk Performance 1GB VPS

Just looking at a Digital Ocean SSD performance test here http://www.itekhost.net/digitalocean-performance-benchmarks/ Decided to run my own on my Rackspace "1 GB Performance" VPS The DO benchmark gave 355MB/s note the performance of the Rackspace VPS: dd if=/dev/zero...

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NGinx.conf Scripting Tutorial

These tutorials are very interesting if you are running nginx and would like to use more than the standard options. http://agentzh.org/misc/slides/nginx-conf-scripting/nginx-conf-scripting.html#1 http://openresty.org/download/agentzh-nginx-tutorials-en.html

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Netcraft.com – What’s that site running?

I've been using http://www.netcraft.com for many years to have a look at what technologies are powering different sites, which IP netblock they are on and whether they have been moved over time. You go to the home page, find the "What’s that site running?" form, enter...

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Cross Platform Opensource Apps

I use Fedora 20 at home and Windows 7 at work but I like to be able to have a consistent environment across my Workstations. The following is a list of productivity applications that gets installed on both Windows and Linux.  

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CakePHP Login and Authenticaton Tutorial

http://miftyisbored.com/a-complete-login-and-authentication-application-tutorial-for-cakephp-2-3/ This site is by a multi-talented developer that sometimes Blogs about CakePHP. The good thing about it is he includes listings for the structure of the database tables...

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