Apache2 vs Nginx for PHP application

Apache2 vs Nginx for PHP application

The conclusion is that it doesn’t matter which server you are going to chose. The real performance wins are purely on PHP side. Using an accelerator with caching can multiply the number of requests your infrastructure can maintain.

Killer … snails!

Giant African land snail

Slashdot reports the next invasion of species.  It’s in Florida for now, and these aren’t too fast or extremely vicious creates, but still … I do understand how uncomfortable and damaging this might be to people who are affected, but never-the-less one has to admit that it’s pretty funny.  If you do have enough of sense of humor to laugh about it, go read some Slashdot comments to the story.  I was literally laughing out loud.  If you prefer your humor in a video source, here is one.

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