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Escaping the I/O Bottleneck: High-Performance Session Caching with Redis on Linux

Hard drives are where sessions go to die. In this deep dive, we replace the slow default file-based session handler with Redis 2.4 to achieve sub-millisecond latency for Norwegian e-commerce and high-traffic portals.

Scaling Past the C10k Barrier: Advanced Nginx Reverse Proxy Configuration

Is your Apache server choking on concurrent connections? We dissect the architecture of a high-performance Nginx reverse proxy, optimizing buffers, timeouts, and kernel parameters for the Norwegian hosting market.

MySQL 5.5 Performance Tuning: Stop Optimizing for Rotating Rust

It is 2011. If you are still running MyISAM on CentOS 5 with default settings, your I/O wait is killing your application. Here is the battle-tested guide to MySQL 5.5 tuning, InnoDB migration, and why raw disk speed matters more than you think.

Stop Wasting RAM: Migrating from Apache mod_php to PHP-FPM & Nginx

Is your server swapping under load? We dive deep into the architecture of PHP-FPM, available natively in PHP 5.3.3+, and show you how to configure Nginx on CentOS 6 to handle thousands of concurrent connections without melting your hardware.

The I/O Bottleneck: Why Your "Cloud" Storage Is Slowing Down Your Database

It is 2011, and the cloud buzzword is everywhere. But if you are running high-load databases on standard VPS hosting, you are likely suffering from the 'noisy neighbor' effect. Here is how to diagnose disk latency and why local RAID-10 beats cheap SANs.

MySQL vs PostgreSQL in 2010: Survival Guide for Nordic SysAdmins

With Oracle's acquisition of Sun shaking the open source community and PostgreSQL 9.0 introducing streaming replication, the database landscape has shifted. We benchmark the choices for high-performance hosting in Norway.

Apache vs Lighttpd: Surviving the C10k Problem on Norwegian Infrastructure

Is Apache's process-heavy architecture killing your server's load average? We benchmark Apache 2.2 against Lighttpd 1.4 on CentOS 5 to see which web server truly delivers for high-traffic Norwegian sites.