For many reasons, it’s a good idea to have a HTTP accelerator/reverse proxy on your webserver to take some of the burdens of HTTP and cache away from Apache and PHP. Squid is most commonly used for this purpose, but after hearing about fellow Dane Poul-Henning Kamp’s creation, Varnish, I decided to try that out before messing with that many-armed monster, Squid.

And I was very pleasantly surprised.

As you might have read earlier on this blog, I’ve been self-hosting this website along with a lot of friends and clients on a rented server at EasySpeedy. I have done this for about 18 months, and it’s been fun to have my very own webserver with 2 GiB RAM and the works, but as I’ve come to realise, this is a huge waste of money and resources.

I don't remember when I last was up this early. It's a long time ago, anyways. I've been up since 3:30 this morning, so I'm feeling quite dizzy.

Right now, I'm working on setting up a new file server for the office. I'm going to deploy with [weblink:66|Gentoo] and [weblink:65|SELinux]. It's my first time with SELinux, so this is going to be interesting. I hope it works out.