Category Archives: Webservers

Hacked webapps

Disclaimer: I say ‘hack’ and ‘hacker’, both you jargon puritans out there and myself know they’re not. Really. But it’s a short and easy to spell word and with this disclaimer, everyone will know what I mean. Including the audience … Continue reading

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Apache gotcha with ServerLimit

A little gotcha that happened to me a while ago; A rather sizeable customer had just launched a new campaign and had problems with HTTP content matching alerts being thrown rather frequently. This particular solution has got five loadbalanced webservers … Continue reading

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Highly unscientific comparison of webservers

A while ago a customer asked us to perform some benchmarks which would be applicable to their live application. The webservers in question are Apache, lighttpd and nginx The tests were made using apachebench on two dedicated machines with no … Continue reading

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