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Surviving the Slashdot Effect: Building Bulletproof HA Clusters with DRBD and Heartbeat

Downtime is not an option. Learn how to architect a high-availability stack using DRBD, Heartbeat, and Nginx to keep your Norwegian services online when traffic spikes.

Latency is the Enemy: Why Your Norwegian Stack Needs a CDN Strategy

Stop forcing users to wait for 30 hops to Oslo. We break down how to pair a robust Norwegian VDS with a Content Delivery Network using Nginx and Varnish for sub-100ms loads.

Surviving the Slashdot Effect: Architecture for High-Concurrency Norwegian Web Apps

Is your Apache server choking on max_clients? We analyze the shift to Nginx, the necessity of SSDs over SAS 15k, and why keeping data in Oslo matters for latency and Datatilsynet compliance.

Cloud Storage Strategies for 2010: Why Your SAN is Obsolete

As we approach 2010, the "Cloud" buzzword is shifting IT budgets. We analyze why moving from physical SANs to VDS-based storage improves TCO and I/O performance in Norway.

Decoupling the Monolith: Building High-Performance SOA in Norway (2009 Edition)

Is your LAMP stack buckling under the Slashdot effect? Stop throwing RAM at a single server. We explore Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Nginx reverse proxying, and why RAID-10 SAS storage is the only viable option for serious Norwegian deployments.