http://fuscata.com/blog en {username} Copyright 2012 2012-04-26T18:56:56+00:00 http://fuscata.com/blog/atwood-drops-the-ball-on-email-security http://fuscata.com/blog/atwood-drops-the-ball-on-email-security#When:18:56:56Z I'm a huge fan of Jeff Atwood, guru of software development and all things Web, and his Coding Horror blog. However, in a recent post entitled "Make Your Email Hacker Proof," he makes some harrowingly false claims about email security.

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More...]]> Drupal, MySQL, Performance, PHP, 2012-04-23T19:47:47+00:00 http://fuscata.com/blog/better-way-to-set-maxclients-prefork http://fuscata.com/blog/better-way-to-set-maxclients-prefork#When:00:12:14Z For ages, I've been using ps to determine Apache's RAM usage (and advising others to do the same) according to the guide at devside.net (despite being disappointed that they added a massive advertisement at the top of the page). More recently I've found that it's not very accurate.

More...]]> Apache, Featured, HOWTO, sysadmin, 2012-04-21T00:12:14+00:00 http://fuscata.com/blog/ec2-medium-instance-64-bit http://fuscata.com/blog/ec2-medium-instance-64-bit#When:19:59:01Z Last month, Amazon Web Services announced two new changes to EC2 that removed the last reasons that we didn't use or recommend this service for VPS hosting:

1. Medium instances in the 4 GB RAM ballpark (3.75 GB)
2. 64-bit support on all instance sizes

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