Articles by MarcusSpiegel

• HowTo: Install Memcached With repcached "Built-In Server Side Replication" On Debian Lenny

  Author: MarcusSpiegel • Tags: apache, debian, high-availability, programming • Comments: 5

  HowTo: Install Memcached With repcached "Built-In Server Side Replication" On Debian Lenny People probably know about memcached and its high performance name-value based memory object cache interface. Its main purpose is to provide an easy to use distributed caching engine in a multinode environment. Have you ever wanted to let memcached handle replication?

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• How To Defend slowloris DDoS With mod_qos (Apache2 On Debian [Lenny])

  Author: MarcusSpiegel • Tags: linux, apache, security, debian, linux, apache, security • Comments: 6

  How To Defend slowloris DDoS With mod_qos (Apache2 On Debian [Lenny]) mod_qos gives some fine-grained opportunities to scale the number of used connections and to defend an attack according to bandwidth limits. Unfortunately it is only available as source-package and there are many possible settings, wich might be hard to setup for this special case. So I provide the way that helped me.

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