Re: [OT] Self-employed's office

[Daniel Shahaf]

I got a few replies off-list, one of them in particular seems very
promising; thanks to all who responded.

Daniel Shahaf wrote on Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 04:44:20 +0300:
> [ Hopefully this isn't too off-topic for this list. ]
> 
> I'm located in the Tel-Aviv area.  These days I'm working remotely
> (under several different hats), but working from home is getting a bit
> long in the tooth, so I've been wondering what other options I have.

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Re: HW/SW for license server

[Valery Reznic]

Thanks to all of you for your suggestions.

And shana tova.

Valery




>
>From: Marc Volovic 
>To: Valery Reznic 
>Cc: "linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il" 
>Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 5:38 PM
>Subject: Re: HW/SW for license server
>
>
>4th is 4gb with iPhone autocorrect. Fuck apple. 
>
>
>DL1xx is is HP. Check their site. 
>
>
>>1000/sec is special
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>On Sep 25, 2011, at 12:25, Valery Reznic  wrote:
>
>
>Thank you, Mark.
>>
>>
>>A few more questions:
>>
>> - what is HP DL1xx-class box with 4th ram
>>- 6 request/second is trivial. On each ratio do you think it will need 
>>something special?
>>
>>
>>Valery
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>From: Marc Volovic 
>>>To: Valery Reznic 
>>>Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 12:03 PM
>>>Subject: Re: HW/SW for license server
>>>
>>>
>>>Dear valery,
>>>
>>>
>>>6 requests per second is trivial. Get the cheapest HP DL1xx-class box with 
>>>4th ram and the cheapest CPU you can manage. 
>>>
>>>
>>>M
>>>
>>>
>>>Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>On Sep 23, 2011, at 11:19, Valery Reznic  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi, All.


I need to setup license server and looking for advice what 
hardware/software to use



General schema is following:


There are about 20K clients all of them periodically (let say once a week) 
query license server for license via https

I'll try my best to spread all those requests over the week, but in worse 
case scenario all those 20K request can came during 1hour,
spread relative evenly i.e about 6 request/sec


When license server get request it query database ~20K records with 2-3 
small fields, generate license and return it to client.


License generation is light - md5sum of the very small input ( few hundreds 
bytes)


I think use following software for it



1. CentOS 6

2. Apache with mod_python
3. Mysql


My questions about software are:
1. License server software is likely to be written in python, hence 
mod_python.
  If I'll use python as CGI instead of Apache module, will it result in 
significant performance drop?


2. How configure apache - what is reasonable settings for MaxClient 
parameter?
   Any other important settings?



3. Use Mysql or Postgres? Or something else?


Hardware questions are:
1. What computer should I use for this task
    i386 or x86-64?
   how much memory?
   disk spaces?


2. What hosting company to buy this server from?


Do you have any experience or suggestions to share?


Thank you,
Valery.

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problems with freshmeat/slashdot

[Shimon Panfil]

Hi friends,
am I the only one who experience problems with freshmeat and/or  
slashdot for last few days? The problem seems to be that connections  
to image servers is blocked.

Who did it? Provider? my home IP (persistent) is in some black list?
I have no problems getting these sites from work, and also no problem  
with text browser. Any ideas?

TIA, Shimon

--
Shimon Panfil: Industrial Physics and Simulations
http://industrialphys.com

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Re: problems with freshmeat/slashdot

[shimi]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Shimon Panfil wrote:

>
> Hi friends,
> am I the only one who experience problems with freshmeat and/or slashdot
> for last few days? The problem seems to be that connections to image servers
> is blocked.
> Who did it? Provider? my home IP (persistent) is in some black list?
> I have no problems getting these sites from work, and also no problem with
> text browser. Any ideas?
> TIA, Shimon
>
> --
>
>
No problems on my end. They both serve their images from the same resource:
a.fsdn.com - which at least for me goes to an Akamai CDN machine. Maybe we
don't share the same Akamai node. I am sent to e872.g.akamaiedge.net at the
moment, which, like I said, works fine. See if you go to a different one
('nslookup a.fsdn.com' would do the trick...).

If you do go to a different Akamai node, try sticking 92.122.131.172
a.fsdn.com to your /etc/hosts and see if helps.

-- Shimi
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