LinuxQuestions.org - Entries for August 2013

This blog is about the development of my various Linux based web sites, starting with raspberrywebserver.com, Banoffee Pi Server and Linux Web Servers.

Apache performance tuning

Posted 08-23-2013 at 07:10 PM by Pyplate

I've spent the last few days tuning Apache. I've achieved quite a good performance increase, mostly by disabling unused modules. In tests with siege, my cluster can now handle over 900 transactions per second. Here's the full article on server cluster tuning.

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Raspberry Pi Server Cluster Performance

Posted 08-15-2013 at 04:36 PM by Pyplate

I've done some testing on my cluster. 4 Pies is definitely better than one, there's a big difference in performance between a single Pi and a 4 node cluster. You can read more detail here: server cluster testing.

As you'd expect, a cluster of four Raspberry Pies isn't that powerful, but setting it up has been interesting. It can handle a surprising amount of traffic - I got 2800 visits from Reddit yesterday. The minimum page load time is over a second (as tested on my local network),...

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Load balanced cluster with Raspberry Pies

Posted 08-13-2013 at 03:19 PM by Pyplate

I finally got around to doing it. I've set up a 4 node Raspberry Pi cluster. It's not that powerful, but setting it up has been good practice.

I used an old PC running Lubuntu as a load balancer. I just installed Apache and I'm using Apache's balancer module. I installed Lubuntu because I'm using a very old PC that has 512MB of RAM. The PC is more powerful than the cluster, but if I just used the PC as a server, I wouldn't have learned anything about load balancing.
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