Setting kernel clocksource to HPET solves mysterious performance issues
For quite a long time the server which runs this very site has had some performance issues. This...
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See all authorsConverting a remote, headless server to RAID1
We have a particular server which has been running very well for the past few years, but I have...
Using wget to login to Mediawiki
For a couple years CC has been using the Pywikipediabot to do a few small operations on a...
Caching Mediawiki with Varnish
We run a few instances of Mediawiki, most notably the CC wiki. The machine that runs the CC wiki...
Upgrade to Debian Squeeze and Mediawiki woes
Just a number of days ago Debian released Squeeze as the new stable version. I decided to test...
HTTPS now available on creativecommons.org
A week or two ago we received a request from someone to add HTTPS support to...
fail2ban
When I started at CC a number of years ago and began having to review Logwatch output on a daily...
Tuning TCP on CC's servers
A couple weeks ago we launched a new rack-mount server, which is kindly hosted by the ISC in...
Gandi.net supports CC
Some time ago, prompted by truly horrifying customer service and useless web interfaces of...
Labs blog now at WordPress 3.0; no more WordPress-mu
For quite a few years CC has maintained an installation of WordPress-mu, which has hosted this...
Recent instability of the CC Wiki: ImageMagick?
For the past few weeks we have been having some intermittent but fairly serious problems with...
Google Checkout support added to CC's donation page
A number of months ago CC launched a simplification of the donation process on the CC...
License badges and icons now available via HTTPS
Prompted by a nudge from Evan Prodromou, license badges and icons are now available via HTTPS on...
Asterisk on a $20/mo. Linode, part 2.
I mentioned in my recent post about running Asterisk on a $20/month Linode that I would try to...
Removing duplicate rows in MySQL
There are thousands of articles out there on removing duplicate rows from a SQL database....
Conferencing with Asterisk on a $20/month Linode
For quite some years CC has been using Free Conference Call for tele-conferencing needs. It...
One click PayPal donations with CiviCRM
About a month ago CC launched its annual Fall fundraising campaign. Along with it we also rolled...
64 bit woes (almost) cleared up
As I mentioned in a recent post, we have upgraded our servers to 64 bit. All of them are now...
32 to 64 bit remotely
A couple months ago I posted here about some of our experiences with Varnish Cache as an HTTP...
Per-blog registrations for Wordpress-mu
About a year ago when I started at Creative Commons, I was asked to write a Wordpress-mu plugin...
Labs and Techblog have merged
For most people reading this, you will have likely already realized that the CC Techblog has...
Varnish Cache at CC
Over the past few months we have been migrating most of our web services to new servers. Squid...