Varnish is a HTTP accelerator, build from ground up with performance in mind. Varnish is targeted primarily at the FreeBSD 6/7 and Linux 2.6 platforms, and will take full advantage of the virtual memory system and advanced I/O features offered by these operating systems. You can get more information and the software from Varnish site.
http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/
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Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two copies of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other. Unison can deal with [...]
MogileFS is our open source distributed filesystem.
http://danga.com/mogilefs/
Some of the advantages are
No Single point Failure
Automatic file replication
Better than RAID
Shared-Nothing — MogileFS doesn’t depend on a pricey SAN with shared disks. Every machine maintains its own local disks.
No RAID required — Local disks on MogileFS storage nodes can be in a RAID, or not. It’s cheaper not [...]
I have recently posted about a big file host uses nginx as web server.
http://www.videosharingscript.com/file-sharing/depositfilescom-use-nginx-web-server/
Today i found another file host having same problem. This site don’t have much traffic, i checked it as i found the site is for sale by its owner. He have a download url for others to test.
When i go to that [...]