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	<title>Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog &#187; Web Hosting</title>
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		<title>Virtualization Technologies - Full Virtualization versus Para-Virtualization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are several ways to implement virtualization. Two leading approaches are full virtualization and para-virtualization.
Full Virtualization
Full virtualization provides total abstraction of the underlying physical system and create a complete virtual system in which the guest operating system can execute. No modification is required in the guest operating system or application; the guest OS or application [...]<br/><!-- begin(Yahoo ad) --><a href="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2892/click/"><img src="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2892/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.taragana.com%2Findex.php%2Farchive%2Fvirtualization-technologies-full-virtualization-versus-para-virtualization%2F&amp;pid=2002724920" alt="Ads by Yahoo!" border="0"/></a><!-- end(Yahoo ad) -->]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/virtualization-technologies-full-virtualization-versus-para-virtualization/</link>
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		<title>Linux: How To Make RAID-1 Disks Independently Bootable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The best part of Linux (imho) is the ability to replicate not only the operating system or the data but also the boot loader. This allows you to have two identical disks running RAID-1, each of which are independently bootable, should one of them fail. You can also add spare disks to the RAID-1 array [...]<br/><!-- begin(Yahoo ad) --><a href="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2884/click/"><img src="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2884/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.taragana.com%2Findex.php%2Farchive%2Flinux-how-to-make-raid-1-disks-independently-bootable%2F&amp;pid=2002724920" alt="Ads by Yahoo!" border="0"/></a><!-- end(Yahoo ad) -->]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/linux-how-to-make-raid-1-disks-independently-bootable/</link>
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		<title>How To Automatically Start Nginx &#038; Fastcgi on Reboot on Fedora Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[nginx [engine x] is a high quality, light footprint (much ligher than Apache HTTPD), high performance HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. nginx is distributed under BSD license unlike its competitor Lighttpd. We are progressively transferring our sites over to nginx. Today when I had to restart the server, I realized [...]<br/><!-- begin(Yahoo ad) --><a href="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2725/click/"><img src="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2725/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.taragana.com%2Findex.php%2Farchive%2Fhow-to-automatically-start-nginx-fastcgi-on-reboot-on-fedora-linux%2F&amp;pid=2002724920" alt="Ads by Yahoo!" border="0"/></a><!-- end(Yahoo ad) -->]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-automatically-start-nginx-fastcgi-on-reboot-on-fedora-linux/</link>
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		<title>Nginx: How To Stop Referrer Spam With Keyword Filtering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can configure Nginx to stop referrer spam by checking for bad keywords like tramadol, phentermine etc. This reduces the load on your server as well as prevents filling your referrer logs with invalid entries. Here is my nginx configuration to stop referrer spam (feel free to copy it):

# 403 forbidden based on http referer
if [...]<br/><!-- begin(Yahoo ad) --><a href="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2722/click/"><img src="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2722/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.taragana.com%2Findex.php%2Farchive%2Fnginx-how-to-stop-referrer-spam-with-keyword-filtering%2F&amp;pid=2002724920" alt="Ads by Yahoo!" border="0"/></a><!-- end(Yahoo ad) -->]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nginx-how-to-stop-referrer-spam-with-keyword-filtering/</link>
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		<title>Nginx: How To Redirect /index.php To / To Avoid Content Duplication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Normally any website that responds to /index.php also responds to /. This has the potential to duplicate content. So how can you re-direct /index.php to / without causing infinite loop in nginx?
Here is a simple solution:


if ($request_uri ~* "^/index.php\??$") {
    rewrite ^.*$ http://$host? permanent;
}

It redirects any url with /index.php or /index.php? at [...]<br/><!-- begin(Yahoo ad) --><a href="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2720/click/"><img src="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2720/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.taragana.com%2Findex.php%2Farchive%2Fnginx-how-to-redirect-indexphp-to-to-avoid-content-duplication%2F&amp;pid=2002724920" alt="Ads by Yahoo!" border="0"/></a><!-- end(Yahoo ad) -->]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nginx-how-to-redirect-indexphp-to-to-avoid-content-duplication/</link>
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		<title>GoDaddy Profits Off Your Unused Domains, Is It Fair?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GoDaddy is a arguably the largest domain name register. Yet it does something which I am not very comfortable with - make profit off your domain names and does that without your explicit permission. Previously when you wanted to register a domain name you had to provide at least two domain name servers. With GoDaddy [...]<br/><!-- begin(Yahoo ad) --><a href="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2721/click/"><img src="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2721/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.taragana.com%2Findex.php%2Farchive%2Fgodaddy-parks-domains-with-unassigned-dns%2F&amp;pid=2002724920" alt="Ads by Yahoo!" border="0"/></a><!-- end(Yahoo ad) -->]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/godaddy-parks-domains-with-unassigned-dns/</link>
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		<title>Nginx Hacking Tips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nginx is a high performance web server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev and a good replacement for Apache HTTPD, the market leader. Nginx is rapidly increasing its market share with major websites joining it like wordpress.com. In the June 2008 Netcraft survey LiteSpeed lost more than 600 thousand sites during this survey, [...]<br/><!-- begin(Yahoo ad) --><a href="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2675/click/"><img src="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2675/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.taragana.com%2Findex.php%2Farchive%2Fnginx-hacking-tips%2F&amp;pid=2002724920" alt="Ads by Yahoo!" border="0"/></a><!-- end(Yahoo ad) -->]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nginx-hacking-tips/</link>
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		<title>Tips on Configuring Nginx for Virtual Hosting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nginx tutorials and examples doesn't tell you how you can configure nginx with virtual hosting when different sites are in different pre-defined directories. Often you are moving over your site from a different web server like Apache HTTPD to Nginx. So you have a pre-defined directory structure which may not be easy to change. Configuring [...]<br/><!-- begin(Yahoo ad) --><a href="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2670/click/"><img src="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2670/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.taragana.com%2Findex.php%2Farchive%2Ftips-on-configuring-nginx-for-virtual-hosting%2F&amp;pid=2002724920" alt="Ads by Yahoo!" border="0"/></a><!-- end(Yahoo ad) -->]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/tips-on-configuring-nginx-for-virtual-hosting/</link>
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		<title>How To Run phpBB on Nginx With Virtual Hosting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We now have our phpBB forum running on Nginx web server, a high quality and significantly better performing web server than Apache HTTPD. Soem of the challenges we faced were:

We use nice permalinks in the forum so there are lots of apache httpd rewrite rules in .htaccess files which had to be converted to nginx [...]<br/><!-- begin(Yahoo ad) --><a href="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2669/click/"><img src="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2669/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.taragana.com%2Findex.php%2Farchive%2Fhow-to-run-phpbb-on-nginx%2F&amp;pid=2002724920" alt="Ads by Yahoo!" border="0"/></a><!-- end(Yahoo ad) -->]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-run-phpbb-on-nginx/</link>
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		<title>Ngnix: Solution for Directory Resolution Problem in Virtual Hosting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nginx displays a peculiar but logical behavior when handling directories specified without the ending slash. For example you have a directory like http://www.example2.com/dir/. However you specify the url as http://www.example2.com/dir. Also assume that you have configured the server for virtual hosting and the alternative server names are: www.example.com, www.example2.com etc. and they are specified in [...]<br/><!-- begin(Yahoo ad) --><a href="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2665/click/"><img src="http://ypn-rss.overture.com/rss/31054/2665/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.taragana.com%2Findex.php%2Farchive%2Fngnix-solution-for-directory-resolution-problem-in-virtual-hosting%2F&amp;pid=2002724920" alt="Ads by Yahoo!" border="0"/></a><!-- end(Yahoo ad) -->]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ngnix-solution-for-directory-resolution-problem-in-virtual-hosting/</link>
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