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I’m a big fan of the Linux operating system, but sometimes you really need a Windows to run software that isn’t available for Linux or where isn’t any related program.
Therefore you could try WINE (which emulates the Windows API within you Linux system), you could install a virtual windows using a virtual machine like Virtual Box (which emulates a whole PC within you Linux system) or you could install a native Windows operating system side by side to you Linux. If you need the whole performance you hardware could give you, you need to install Windows on your hard drive next to you Linux installation.
Since the Windows boot loader is very restrictive regarding to having multiple operating systems the easiest way is to first install Windows and then later install your Linux system, which brings GRUB (or something similar) as a boot loader.
I first installed Ubuntu on my PC and wanted to install Windows later, so I hard to do it the hardest way:
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I'm a big fan of the Linux operating system, but sometimes you really need a Windows to run software that isn't available for Linux or where isn't any related program. Therefore you could try WINE (which emulates the Windows API within you Linux system), you could install a virtual windows using a virtual machine like ...

In my last post I wrote about some problems that I had with my virtual server that freezes under heavy load. The improvements I suggested worked really nice but the server still sometimes freezes – not often as before but it still happened. So I “googled” around and also asked at ServerFault.com.

It seems that keeping up the the apache mpm_prefork and mod_php will not be the solution anymore. Most sites suggested to use mpm_worker instead, because it uses less memory (and my problem was, that my Apache consumed all my memory). On the other hand there could be some problems with thread-safety, but I liked to give it a try. PHP will not me used as an Apache module any more. Instead we will run PHP as a FastCGI script. continue reading…

In my last post I wrote about some problems that I had with my virtual server that freezes under heavy load. The improvements I suggested worked really nice but the server still sometimes freezes - not often as before but it still happened. So I "googled" around and also asked at ServerFault.com. It seems that ...

After leaving my last company I rented a small virtual server at 1und1. I took the XL vHost package which contains:

• 20 GB Raid 5 Storage
• 512 MB RAM, max 2 GB RAM
• 2 TB Traffic

At this time I thought it would be nice to install every thing by myself, so I choose a plain “Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64 bit minimal” as operating system for my vHost. I installed Apache2, PHP5, MySQL and all the stuff I needed. It all works fine and I was really impressed by the speed of this virtual server.

Then I moved sportinleipzig.de, which I made during the time at my last company to this new server. This page does not have a very high traffic (200 unique visitors a day), but a lot of content (at least 5000 “static” pages). After 2 days the server crashed the first time, whereas crash means, that he is still alive, but does not respond to anything more then a simple ping. I restarted the server over the admin panel. Half a week later the server crashed the next time. Investigating the cause for these crashed I found out a few interesting things. continue reading…

After leaving my last company I rented a small virtual server at 1und1. I took the XL vHost package which contains: 20 GB Raid 5 Storage 512 MB RAM, max 2 GB RAM 2 TB Traffic At this time I thought it would be nice to install every thing by myself, so I choose a plain "Ubuntu 8.04 ...

On the last blog I wrote for was an article which described who to install eAccelerator on a Ubuntu server. As this blog entry had a lot of visits I decided to put it on this blog again:

PHP is not the fastest scripting language, that truly a fact. Except from optimizing the scripts there a few possibilities to speed everything up. One is to install a byte code optimizer and cache on your server. They cache the byte code created by the PHP parser and try to optimise it. So every time some one requests for a page on your server the script does not have to be parsed again. This brings a speedup of 120 – 250% depending on you script. There are several byte code caching program available, the one I like most is eAccelerator. Sadly eAccelerator is not available through the Ubuntu repositories so you have install them yourself. Here is a short description how to archive this!
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On the last blog I wrote for was an article which described who to install eAccelerator on a Ubuntu server. As this blog entry had a lot of visits I decided to put it on this blog again: PHP is not the fastest scripting language, that truly a fact. Except from optimizing the scripts there ...