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Re:Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator by patio11 on Friday July 30, 2010 @12:06AM (#1560242)
Yep. Sometime after this interview I figured out what my Apache configuration problems were. The short version: KeepAlive, which might as well be called as TurnThisOnToBlockThisServerTotallyEveryTimeYourSiteAppearsInSocialMedia.
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Re:Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator by pvg on Friday July 30, 2010 @12:24AM (#1560273)
There's also just tossing a reverse proxy in front of your apache, it hands the problem of slow requests, bad requests, KeepComatose, etc to something lightweight that's a lot more crap-tolerant.

http://joshua.schachter.org/2008/01/proxy.html

The simpler of these (e.g. pound) take about as much time to set up as scrolling through your apache config looking for some mis-set option.

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Re:Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator by alnayyir on Friday July 30, 2010 @02:37AM (#1560441)
One task to a machine can save a lot of trouble, ie, not having the database on the local app server + having varnish + nginx in front of it.
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