Apache + Nginx + Varnish
If you think your website is low, most probably you’re right. If you’re using Apache (through Cpanel) like I do the solution is to use Nginx as a reverse proxy. A even better solution is to add varnish in front and your site will become fast or at lease faster than before.
Assuming Apache is already installed and working, you need to change the port it listens from 0.0.0.0:80 to 0.0.0.0:8081 . Next you need to install nginx and edit /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf :
What’s cooking for FreeBSD 9?
This page will document changes that will be included in FreeBSD 9, including those that might end up being committed to earlier branches. In other words, it describes differences between 8.0 and 9.0, no matter what happens to the versions in between.
Free Wireless everywhere
You’re sitting in an airport or in a cafe, and people want your money for Internet access. They do allow ICMP traffic, though (i.e., you can ping machines on the Internet). Or you’ve been in a restaurant that has a wireless but when you ask for the password they say it’s only for their pda’s?
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September 27th, 2010 in
Cool links, FreeBSD, Tutorials, Unix | tags: firewall piercing, icmptx, ifconfig, ip-over-DNS, ip-over-icmp, nstx, route, tunnel |
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FreeBSD file server upgrade (zfs pools)
20100915:
A new version of ZFS (version 15) has been merged. This version uses a python library for the following subcommands: zfs allow, zfs unallow, zfs groupspace, zfs userspace. For full functionality of these commands the following port must be installed: sysutils/py-zfs
Torrentflux on a FreeBSD box.
Sometimes while I’m at work I remember I need to download certain things at home (especially torrents) and I don’t wanna wait until I get home because I usually forget (and remember again the next day at work .. and so on) 
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So, after playing a little bit with FreeNAS (and see it has a web based torrent client) I’ve decided to install a web based torrent client (torrentflux) on my FreeBSD router, at home. Here’s how I did it
Step 1. – install a web server (I went with lighttpd because of the low memory usage but you can install any web server like: apache, nginx, etc).
- cd /usr/ports/www/lighttpd
- make all install clean
