Posts tagged Load Balancing
Monitoring and measurement software, the search
Oct 11th
While at VMworld 2011, I spent a lot of time at the expo (where companies were peddling their wares) looking for 2 items.
- Storage vendors who do things via NFS.
- Monitoring and measurement companies to help me consolidate the multiple pieces of software we run today.
This post is about #2.
I looked at a ton of software while at VMworld and more once I got back and I had fallen in love with LogicMonitor, found via a google search.
I also looked at a bunch of things once I got back, but LogicMonitor still keeps on winning on everything technical for us.
Understands things like VMware (vCenter and ESXi via SDK), SNMP devices (including device specific items like F5 extensions, Fortigate), measurement of data from Apache, MySQL (and I assume other databases), etc.
I’ll write more later, need to finish up my slightly extended beta test and work on the alerting function.
Check them out, so far so good.
Apache 1.3 – you were loved
Feb 4th
So, across my RSS feed today, I saw a blurb…
Apache terminates ‘outated’ web server
What?
I clicked the link and was sent off to The Register for their report on the issue.
Apache 1.3 was released in July, 1998 – 12 years ago, and still in operation today.
At ipHouse – we use 1.3 as the tried and true Apache webserver on our cluster. We’ve not had either issues or problems; and security updates are few and far between. I guess after 12 years no one cares anymore to hack such old code or something.
Goodbye Apache 1.3, we had a long relationship, but your sister is younger and better equipped for todays Internet. Don’t cry, we’ll remember you fondly.
Hello Apache 2.2 – we are look forward to a long relationship on our network behind our F5 load balancers.
*sniffle*
Summary: Apache 1.3.42 is the final release according to the Apache Software Foundation. They recommend moving to Apache 2.2.14. Apache 2.0 will end once Apache 2.4 has been released, and finally, Apache 2.3.5 is in alpha stage.
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FreeBSD 7 does feel faster!
Sep 4th
This past couple of days, I worked with our web guy as I redeployed our web cluster from FreeBSD 6.x-STABLE to FreeBSD 7.x-STABLE.
We also moved from the rock solid and never failing (and now end of lifed) PHP4 to PHP5 along the way.
My subjective view of FreeBSD 7 vs 6 on our web cluster gives me the feeling that 7 does feel faster with the new ULE scheduler.
I say subjective because I didn’t take real benchmarks before or afterwards, only on how the system felt (responsiveness) and using very basic tools (top, systat -vmstat).
