Well, it doesn’t really make much of a difference, since slicehost (after being acquired by Rackspace) is a part of Rackspace, and I could feel it instantly why everything in the rackspace cloud looks / behaves similar to slicehost..huh! Why I moved is probably just because of the monthly charges that I had to face [...]
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AWS,
Nginx,
rackspace,
slicehost,
web server
I just finished setting up Nginx on my Slicehost VPS, and I can already feel the performance boost up. My weblog scores a cool little “A” on the YSLOW performance measurement score. Well, more than that, I can feel a sigh of relief that I am not using my swap memory anymore, plus the bonus [...]
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apache,
fast cgi,
Nginx,
php,
phusion passenger,
rails,
ruby