Monthly Archive for November, 2006

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links for Nov 13-Nov 19

Published on 19 November, 2006 in links. 0 Comments

This week,

followed some interesting links from Rojo’s newsletter.
research into open source in China
found an interesting project: Xinha

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links for Nov 06-Nov 12

Published on 12 November, 2006 in links. 0 Comments

A busy week of surfing:

Looked open source based companies for an idea that I have in mind.
DNS stuffs. Looking at moving my hosting dns to EveryDNS.net
revisit online storage/ backup.

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Work starts on Host Thyself

Published on 6 November, 2006 in my ideas and online. 0 Comments

Since I am doing more and more system admin work behind the scene to support my websites, I had compiled a collection of useful notes.

Some of the notes are result of countless trial-and-error as well as searches, so I hope it will prove useful to other users.

Rather than have the notes sitting on my harddisk, I decided to turn the notes into a wiki and have it available online.

The site is setup using MediaWiki (which is the reason I upgraded to PHP5) and is now online at Host Thyself. The organisation is still under work as I gradually move more information online.

links for Oct 30-Nov 5

Published on 5 November, 2006 in links. 0 Comments

Still looking at system and sysadmin stuffs. Managing server is a fulltime job! I’m spending too much time admin-ing servers and not on business or stuffs that put bread on the table.

PHP caching
apache, webDAV

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Getting eAccelerator to work

Published on 3 November, 2006 in offline and wordpress. 0 Comments

While installing MediaWiki, I decided to try out eAccelerator. eAccelerator is one of 3 opcode cache mentioned in Mediawiki install. The other 2 are Turck MMCache and APC.

After browsing around, eAccelerator seems to be the most popular and with the most favourable reviews.

It wasn’t that difficult to get it installed although there was a few detours. A few quick searches (I still refuse to use the world “google” as verb for “search”) solved the problems.

Installing is easy following the installation notes. So far so good. Websites loads, so I went to bed.

Next morning I found all the sites down and there was a screen-full of httpd processes. The VPS ran out of memory and I can’t even su to root. I restarted and found that there were some problem with caching WordPress:

PHP Fatal error: main() [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required

Still trying to find out how to get eAccelerator to work. I suspect maybe it doesn’t on a VPS with limited RAM, in which caseI can give up.