Setting kernel clocksource to HPET solves mysterious performance issues
by nkinkade on 2012-04-10
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
by nkinkade on 2012-04-06
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
by nkinkade on 2011-04-30
For a couple years CC has been using the Pywikipediabot to do a few small operations on a...
Caching Mediawiki with Varnish
by nkinkade on 2011-03-18
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
by nkinkade on 2011-02-10
Just a number of days ago Debian released Squeeze as the new stable version. I decided to test...
HTTPS now available on creativecommons.org
by nkinkade on 2011-02-04
A week or two ago we received a request from someone to add HTTPS support to...
Tuning TCP on CC's servers
by nkinkade on 2010-12-08
A couple weeks ago we launched a new rack-mount server, which is kindly hosted by the ISC in...
Gandi.net supports CC
by nkinkade on 2010-09-13
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
by nkinkade on 2010-07-02
For quite a few years CC has maintained an installation of WordPress-mu, which has hosted this...
Recent instability of the CC Wiki: ImageMagick?
by nkinkade on 2010-06-04
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
by nkinkade on 2010-03-18
A number of months ago CC launched a simplification of the donation process on the CC...
License badges and icons now available via HTTPS
by nkinkade on 2010-02-23
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.
by nkinkade on 2010-01-20
I mentioned in my recent post about running Asterisk on a $20/month Linode that I would try to...
Removing duplicate rows in MySQL
by nkinkade on 2010-01-12
There are thousands of articles out there on removing duplicate rows from a SQL database....
Conferencing with Asterisk on a $20/month Linode
by nkinkade on 2010-01-07
For quite some years CC has been using Free Conference Call for tele-conferencing needs. It...
One click PayPal donations with CiviCRM
by nkinkade on 2009-11-09
About a month ago CC launched its annual Fall fundraising campaign. Along with it we also rolled...
64 bit woes (almost) cleared up
by nkinkade on 2008-08-02
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
by nkinkade on 2008-07-15
A couple months ago I posted here about some of our experiences with Varnish Cache as an HTTP...
Per-blog registrations for Wordpress-mu
by nkinkade on 2008-07-01
About a year ago when I started at Creative Commons, I was asked to write a Wordpress-mu plugin...
Labs and Techblog have merged
by nkinkade on 2008-06-28
For most people reading this, you will have likely already realized that the CC Techblog has...
Varnish Cache at CC
by nkinkade on 2008-04-03
Over the past few months we have been migrating most of our web services to new servers. Squid...