Author Archives: jebw

Cross breeding cats and dogs (or PHP and Rails)

Posted on April 29, 2012 by jebw

I’ve been thinking a little about PHP and hosting recently. Whilst Apache with mod_php is very simple to use and incredibly popular, it does have its own sets of problems. Amongst these are inefficient use of resources – every image/css/js … Continue reading →

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And there went the year!

Posted on December 18, 2011 by jebw

Well, 2 posts in a year – I guess that shows how busy my years been. I’m now starting to count down for a xmas break, the snow’s arrived finally and I got out for some climbing on Helvellyn today, … Continue reading →

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PHP and mod_fcgid

Posted on February 6, 2011 by jebw

I’ve just moved the server this blogs hosted on and one of my objectives was set the new machine up using mod_fcgid with PHP via FastCGI rather than the more traditional apache + mod_php. Why? Apache + mod_php is not … Continue reading →

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