Instead of fighting with traffic I decided to sit around for a while after work and add to the article I’ve been working on about the lighttpd configuration on nuxx.net. I’ve really begun to like lighttpd, despite it’s few quirks and limitations.
Articles covering the configuration of lighttpd are easy to come by, so I wanted to detail how I have put together lighttpd, php-cgi (as a FastCGI), cronolog, and some custom configuration to make a web server which runs PHP apps under the UID which owns each vhost, rotates logs out automatically, and generally performs quite well. With this configuration I’ve been able to withstand both individual sites being compromised and unexpectedly high loads.
So, if you want to read more about it, here you go: lighttpd
If you would like to read a bit about the server behind nuxx.net, you’ll want to look at this article. Note that the configuration detailed there will be changing as soon as I migrate from rowla.nuxx.net to the much more powerful banstyle.nuxx.net.