Centric IT

I wanted to find a simple to maintain and expand soultion for load balancing a web cluster with high availability. I have found my solution in HAProxy. Scenario This demo scenario is in the following enviroment: Network Configuration Network: 192.168.11.0 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.11.254 (Although this is irrelavant) 1 x Shared IP for the Load Balancers 192.168.11.40 2 x Load Balancers BHLabs1 – 192.168.11.30 BHLabs6 [...]

So how does the current generation of Browsers fair on the current generation of Acid test? Safari 4 a clear winner! I’m supprised about Internet Explorer 8, being the newest of the bunch. I had high  hopes for them at least trying in this release!

If you’re used to working in a nice IDE or some kind of GUI when programming, this may be of interest to you. The common complaint I hear about when people have to work from the command line such as on remote servers is that there is no nice editor. To me this sounds ludicrous just [...]

Amazon have launched Amazon Cloudfront today with an announcment on their blog as a service to layer on top of S3. Cloudfront allows you to serve content through Amazon’s edge cache which is located around the world in key locations. When you request content through the assigned domain name, it automatically routes you to the [...]