Monthly Archives: June 2008

Running Django 0.96.2 in Leopard

Posted on June 29, 2008 by Peter

The installer script for the Python based web development framework Django contains a bug on OSX 10.5 which leads to problems with the default applications “admin”, “comments” and “sitemaps”. The template and media files of these applications are copied to … Continue reading →

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Hosting OpenVZ on Ubuntu 8.04

Posted on June 15, 2008 by Peter

The long term support edition 8.04 of Ubuntu Linux will provide security updates until 2013. Therefore it is an ideal distribution for building the base of a secure hosting solution. In this article I will describe how you can setup … Continue reading →

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Speeding up PHP in 5 minutes

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Peter

By default PHP scripts are compiled on each access. This will become a real performance killer once your website hits a certain load. There is a number of Opcode caches available which try to overcome this recompiling issue by storing … Continue reading →

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