RAID on NSLU2
alan | 29 September, 2009 21:15
Already wrote about it, I fell in love with my NSLU2 device. Its really cool that you can run almost everything that completes your home network on a small 133Mhz, 32MB RAM machine. Imagine how cool is it to de-underclock your NSLU2 to make it work on 266MHz speed and install a second hard drive to run it over RAID1! This small little guy is now running as my file, print, DNS, APT repository and local Web server! Here I post a newly raided NSLU2. Its fantastic.
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Debian Rocks!
alan | 24 November, 2008 18:10
Got my NSLU2 on Friday as 
expected. Its a small ARM architecture based NAS server from Linksys. Wiped out its firmware and installed Debian Lenny on it. Now I have a small file/backup server at home to store files over NFS or to automatically download backups from server. Using lighttpd It also acts as my local Parsix apt repository mirror. It really worths that 50 bucks I paid for ;-) See how small is it comparing to my AT&T wireless router!
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APC Opcode Cache
alan | 04 November, 2007 03:01
Armen recommended me to install APC opcode cache system to improve PHP performance on our servers. APC seems to be better for PHP5 and might be implemented as a default feature in PHP6. Pages are displayed faster and system load is better, but I shortly noticed that there is a common "White page of Death" problem with APC. This problem causes all pages to be displayed as a blank white page. Discarding cache contents (or simply restarting Apache) solves the problem.