This is the first draft of the structural design behind the new backup solution called b4f.
Currently the main goal is to have a system for encrypted off-site backup allowing for incremental backups.
This will be a slightly technical post, but remember that anything, even the goals, can change.
This is how to measure a webserver delay from the request to the first response. Thus it will only measure the time within the server, not the network delays.
It is done using tcpdump to collect the data and a program I have written to extract the response time.
There are some visitors that insist on visiting removed pages over and over again. The Microsoft msnbot does seem to have other agendas than merely indexing websites for their search engine. This blog post is about UserAgent spam.
Many times I can read about how people look at Gentoo and its nature of always compiling each packet at installation. Often it’s believed that Gentoo is faster because the compilation can optimize for the processor being used. That may be true, but that is not what characterizes Gentoo.
In my opinion it’s the use-flags.
I have been writing a (yet another) blog platform. This one using simple python and its wsgi interface. However the most interesting part, and why I did write it in the first place, is the static files generated. My goal was to have a robust platform that easily could be moved without servers and not be dependent on any specific running database.
And now I am running WordPress, so what happened.
