MySQL Load-Balanced Cluster Guide – Part 2
Warning: This is a very old post. I have re-posted it from an old blog as people were linking to it, but I would strongly advise you to make sure you understand what you are doing before following any...
View ArticleChill: My little open source PHP CouchDb Library
Two years ago now, I created a CouchDb Client library for PHP called Chill and published it on Github. I used it in a couple of projects, and at some point upgraded it to operate as a Composer package,...
View ArticleHandling robots.txt files in PHP based bots
Modern web applications are rarely the stand-alone silos they once were. Web applications and sites alike pull data from countless other web sites as part of their normal operation — This can be as a...
View ArticleBack on my own server
I’ve been running dancryer.com on a shared hosting account and block8.co.uk (+ client sites) on AppFog for a while now. As of today, it is finally all back running on a server completely under my...
View ArticleDynamic DNS with CloudFlare
I have a Raspberry Pi at home that I use as a simple web server for a few bits and pieces, and I wanted to make it web accessible. I couldn’t rely on my ISP to provide a static IP address (it is, at...
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