Centric IT

Getting PHP and oracle to play nice is a massive pain, so this post is more a log for myself next time I have to do it more than anything else!
The procedure requires you to compile PHP from source, so if thats not your thing or your easily scared don’t bother continuing!
Firstly an enormous yum [...]

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 [...]

There are certain things I keep close to hand when I’m presented with a new site by our development team. I use these sites and books as a basis for most criticisms, decisions and tweaks I make when deploying a new site. This detail in these guides is generally focused on LAMP sites, although the [...]

Add these simple directives into your Apache configuration and you should notice a considerable increase in speed in the delivery of pages. As a working example, I performed these tweaks on http://www.shortlist.com/. Here are the before and after stats:

The changes are:

Homepage on an empty cache from 956.6k to 658.9k, both 133 requests.
Homepage on a primed [...]