Category: Linux

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Site performance and moving to the Cloud….

This is a topic that I revisit quite often, sometimes out of boredom and sometimes just out of a need to well revisit things. Over the years I have worked as a system admin for a few hosting companies and have noticed that not all sites fit well on a shared platform, or if they fit just don’t work as well as they could.  My goal has always been to try to get a premium setup with out paying an arm and a leg for it.

Below I am going to cover a few things that I have researched(Don’t expect any hard numbers you will simply have to take my word on this of search Google for articles showing full comparisons/numbers), tested and implemented for Fauxzen.com. Continue reading →

AirVideo server on Ubuntu

In the past installing AirVideo server on an Ubuntu system was somewhat of a pain, and an all around hack.  Upon my recent purchase of an iPad I really wanted to get AirVideo working again.  So after a little search and thinking that it was going to be a hack job again, I came across a package that someone had created to get this installed.

You can find the PPA information needed to install AirVideo here. Using the PPA installing was a breeze and I now have AirVideo setup and streaming to my iPad, iPhone and soon to Kats iTouch.

You can find the startup script here and there is also some other great information covered little more in depth here.