As part of a project I required a proxy which would allow remote users to access serveral internal servers sitting behind our firewall from a single access point. The easiest way of accomplishing this is via a proxy. My first choice of proxy is squid which supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and protocols. Used [...]
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Elastic web hosting in its simplest terms is a hosting account where resources can be rapidly expanded to meet demand. Still very much a new technology its use is gradually beginning to pick up as more and more people discover the limitations of fixed resource hosting. On a typical fixed hosting account [...]
Having attempted to set ruby on rails up many times, this is by far my favourite soloution and it also happens to be the simplest. Why did i go the mongrel route? Well because FastCgi with Apache make me want to cry. Its buggy (especially on fedora and CentOS) and its a pain in the [...]
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