Solo Technology

Finally got around to setting up Hamachi to start automatically on the Linux server that hosts this thing. Nice little “how-to” over in the hamachi forums that filled the bill nicely. That’s been on my list of things to do for over a month; I’m glad I finally got around to it (or a “round tuit”). Always nice when something is so simple.

While the server was down, took the opportunity to toss in another 256MB stick so now we’re up to a massive 768MB of ram. For my sorts of volumes, that sure seems plenty adequate.

I’m trying to get a handle on how to tune apache a bit better now. I’ve found a few articles that offer some guidelines or tips aimed at bloggers (and one on setting up wp-cache too), just haven’t sorted it all out yet. Spent an hour going through the httpd.conf and commenting out a bunch of modules that I’m reasonably sure I didn’t need to have loaded. That alone made a huge difference in memory usage. Again, for my sort of volume, this isn’t overly critical but maybe someday I’ll write something truly interesting to the rest of the world.

2 Responses to “Hamachi as a Linux Service, Apache fun”

1. geoffe on March 13th, 2006 8:22 pm
   

   I’m not familiar with Hamachi but it seems to serve the same purpose Samba has on my linux server.

2. chris on March 13th, 2006 8:25 pm
   

   Not really, but you can run Samba “over” hamachi if so inclined.

   Essentially, hamachi is a “peer to peer” vpn. By using it, you can easily and securely connect multiple machines together via a virtual network. Once that network is established, samba works great. As does just about any other network related activity you can think of. Regardless of where the machines physically are.

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