Category Archives: Sundry sysadmin
pam_shield succeeding blockhosts.py
I’ve since a while back suggested blockhosts to customers who are unable to use firewalls for one reason or another (not always entirely sure what they could be!) but still want to stop brute force attacks on various services. While … Continue reading
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
Posted in Sundry sysadmin, Webservers
Tagged apache, benchmark, comparison, lighttpd, nginx
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