Filed under 'groovymother'
➠ April 22, 2008
Rands, suffering from “The Groovymother Effect”
➠ April 21, 2008
NGINX requests - by day
A blog post I wrote last night ended up on the front page of Reddit this morning. As of 2pm, I have had more unique visitors today than I had in January-March of this year combined!
My stack of nginx, Apache, Django and memcache all kicked in exactly as designed, and handled the flood of visitors without breaking (much) of a sweat, on a $25-a-month virtual server.
(Hat tip to Simon Willison for blogging about using this architecture. and inspiring me to preemptively deploy it on my own blog)
➠ June 1, 2007
➠ April 19, 2007
"groovy mother" :: First Post!
Lummy! It’s been five years since I started writing on groovymother.com. Gonna have to spend some time this weekend doing visualizations of my post history.
➠ December 31, 2006
“Project threequarters” is live
Just launched my rebuilt and redesigned blog. It's still a bit on the brittle side, but I'm really happy with it as a first step.
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