Gallery
You'll notice there's a 'photos' button up top, once again. Photo gallery's back -- and a lot better than it used to be. All of the photos are hosted on JungleDisk and delivered via a FUSE module... it's plenty fast for that purpose. It's probably 4gb of photos and videos, easily. Thankfully JungleDisk charges pennies for space so I can host them and not worry about it being ridiculously expensive!
WordPress 3.0.1, nginx, FastCGI, Gallery3, and JungleDisk
I've been busy with my server lately, trying to get the most out of my SliceHost install. I've moved a bunch of my old files onto JungleDisk, which is mounted as a FUSE volume and is accessible through the web through some symlinks. My paltry 10gb of disk space through SliceHost doesn't really matter now!
The only problem is if the data is not cached, it takes 2x the bandwidth to serve content. It's not the end of the world since I never get close at all to hitting that amount. Additionally, it's impossible to serve large files from it because the file must be copied to disk locally before it can be served. Even with a 4-5mb/sec connection that I have here it will take a minute or so to serve a 1gb file. However, for things like music and photos and random things it works great!
I'm moving all my pictures online now, and hopefully will get a nice gallery up for all of the random pictures I have. Finally, I'm going to try to make a commitment to post something every few days so I can get some of the stuff swimming in my head out into the void. We'll see what happens!
I upgraded WordPress!
Among other things. I've actually been pretty busy on my server lately... it's really nice to have something that you can experiment on. Now I'm running nginx instead of apache2, mod_rails, php5-fcgi for WP, and a bunch of other goodies.
The best part is I am still under 256mb used total in a real world scenario. I had to make a couple of sacrifices to keep the usage low but for my small server I'm sure it won't matter and/or no one will notice anyway. Despite that, I'm pretty happy with the way it came out! I did a bunch of speed tests vs. memory usage with apache2 vs. nginx... I was pretty satisfied with the results but I'll write about the hard data later.
Until then most likely all that will be here is this blog post! I'm going to have to make good on my late New Year's resolution of trying to keep interesting things in this blog... I have a few posts to write!