It’s been a long time (more than a year now) since I wrote my latest post on this blog and I feel very sorry for people who were waiting for some updates! I will try to write more often and regularly…

But today, I finally moved my blog from my ageing server to a new – blazing fast – Xeon Quad Core aptly called: Storm. Some important changes occurred behind the scene; previously the website was running on a simple Apache + mod_php configuration that was overloaded very often, mostly because I’m hosting some high traffic websites like this one.

After some research I went to the conclusion that the combination of Nginx + php-fpm was the way to go. So I spent much of the past week doing some benchmarks using ab and I can confirm that it is very efficient, fast and still pretty stable. I’ve also leaved Gentoo Linux in favor of Archlinux which is more straightforward to maintain on a day-by-day basis. These days Gentoo became such a pain in the ass to keep the system up-to-date without breaking everything… which is rather annoying for a server without a physical access.

We’ll see how it goes in the upcoming weeks. I still have some other domains and applications to transfer before I can definitely shutdown the old server.

EDIT: Aww… and you probably don’t care but the ipv6 access is no longer available due to various routing issues with my provider, but anyway it will be restored ASAP.