[ale] VPS or not

[David Hillman]

Lighttpd looks great!  I'll look into it.  What I am hoping to do right now
is move my local sites off to Linode and then have a single backup server
running that can mirror all the data locally.  I still don't trust not
having a local copy of my data.  I was thinking of running a cron job and
then using scp, or something like that, to copy the files.  My main problem
is how to properly get the MySQL database files without screwing something
up.  Is there a better solution to the problem?

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:21 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>wrote:

> My Linode is the first time I really had a chance to give Lighttpd a
> try. The documentation can be hard to find, and a bit sparse, but I'm
> really loving it. The configuration is MUCH easier. It is not
> difficult at all to setup some non-standard configurations. For
> example, I am now using it to serve the web frontends to Subversion
> and Mercurial on my department's VCS server. We don't want the code
> generally browseable, so I have Lighty configured to do LDAP
> authentication agains our Active Directory. Even further, we have
> sub-departments and each sub-department's code is locked behind LDAP
> authentication against specific DNs.
>
> I also have a VM setup to handle the unavailable page for the web
> portal I administer. This VM has 128MB of RAM allocated to it, is the
> _only_ server serving the unavailable page, and is running Lighty.
> There were some issues last week and I got a chance to watch this
> server handle the load in real time. It was being hit constantly (the
> access log did not stop scrolling via `tail -f`) and the whole time
> the CPU was 99% idle.
>
> Apache HTTPD has its uses, but I'm starting to think they aren't many.
> Lighty rocks.
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:06 PM, David Hillman <hillmands at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >  I usually use Apache, but Lighttpd looks interesting.
>
>
>
> --
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>
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