Monthly Archives: February 2011

Updates to CodeBetter.Com’s Cloud Setup

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Brendan Tompkins

A few weeks ago I mentioned that we were now hosting CodeBetter.Com in the Rackspace cloud.   Overall I was happy with the setup, but one thing kept bugging me. Apache was using a LOT of RAM, and I had … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Server Setup with Python Fabric

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Brendan Tompkins

On my journey to figure out how to host CodeBetter.Com under Ubuntu Linux/Wordpress, I stumbled (via Dru’s excellent sage advice) upon the Python library Fabric to automate setup of the servers.  From the Fabric docs : Fabric is a Python … Continue reading →

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Cloud Hosting CodeBetter.Com

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Brendan Tompkins

It’s been over a year in the making, but CodeBetter.Com has finally settled into its new home.  It’s been a journey from Community Server, hosted on two large Windows 2008 servers (SQL Box - Core2Quad 2.4 Ghz Q6600 4G 2x500G SATA … Continue reading →

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