User: linuxperformer

Re:Outsource US elections to India!

On: India Starts All-Electronic National Elections

None can beat Americans in items 3, 4, 5 though. By any chance, have you been to the immigration section of any airport lately?

Do they think DNS if just for HTTP?

On: ICANN, IAB Ask VeriSign to Suspend SiteFinder

DNS is looked up for a thousand purposes besides HTTP. This is going to break a lot of programs I guess. It would have been less offending if they were doing this just for www.{*}.com lookups.

Coolest language

On: PHP Usage in the Enterprise

PHP is the coolest language for Web development today. It provides the features of Perl but designed to be a Web development language. PHP is my primary choice if the applications doesn't demand complicated business abstractions (Java scores in such situations). Using an accelerator like ionCube will be icing-on-the-cake.

TUX is another soultion

On: Surviving Slashdotting with a Small Server

One can effectively employ the TUX Web server on such situations. Especially if the pages to be served are entirely static in nature (TUX can manage dynamic content as well, though not its forte), TUX is the simplest solution. We once tried to serve the State Secondary School exam results here in Kerala, India using this technique and the performance was pretty impressive. It was accomplished with a P IV Compaq desktop PC with 256 MB of RAM. A write up is available at Tux@Play.

So if your site is slashdotted, churn out a static version of the pages which are likely to be pulled most and hand them over to a TUX server. Sit back and enjoy the traffic!