Hey ho, I know many of you are savvy with Linux.

Well if I could bend your ears for a moment I'd appreciate it

Catch me on Skype colin.densem for a chat as it's possibly easier

Basically I'm working on a horizontal farm of servers, so we're talking nfs, reverse proxy, varnish, nginx, mysql, sphinx, s3 etc I'm not eliminating spof's at this point, but going forwards maybe, but it's not that critical of the site is down for a few minutes while monit picks up the bits.

If you know php and the pro's cons of mpm-prefork and mpm-workers that would help too AS a guide we're using fcgi with php-fpm atm.

This is for a new release of BRISKODA, new platform of servers to grow and shout about or site from.

I'm glad you look after that side of things Colin :confused:

My good mate is a linux system admin I can put you in touch if you like Col. :confused:

Wow... what language was that written in?

You lost me after Skype!

hehe try this then... in the last hour I have added static image files so png, gif & jpg into memcache, nginx is then serving these from memory.

This resulted in an range of page loads from 1.6 to 1.9s dropping to .65 and .89s

This is on our testing slice in the USofA

Yep all contributions welcomed, it's mainly to ratify some ideas and approaches... all very fluid at the moment of course

Will try and get you on skype Col.

I'm out of the country on business for a few days, but happy to help and have done quite a bit on the S3 style services of late.