December 3, 2011

Getting away from the Apache+MySQL stack.

Posted by Eric in Tech.

Apache is fat. Fat with memory usage. Right now It’s eating up 40% of the available memory on my server and it’s nearly idle. I would hate to see what it looks like under load (but this box almost never gets under load, because this blog is really low-traffic). 2nd in memory usage is MySQL. MySQL almost idle too. So the new plan is:

  • nginx
  • jekyll
  • couchdb (if necessary).
I figure, if I’m a professional web application developer, I should probably write my own site. Mostly, it’s being prompted by how fat Apache/MySQL and PHP are.

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