As read in Diamond Notes, Amazon is moving into CDN market with CloudFront.
Some Content Delivery Network providers

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When adding new virtual hosts in your nginx configuration file, you can experience this error message:
# nginx -t
2008/11/13 09:37:03 [emerg] 12299#0: could not build the server_names_hash, you should increase server_names_hash_bucket_size: 32
2008/11/13 09:37:03 [emerg] 12299#0: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
server_names_hash_bucket_size controls the maximum length of a virtual host entry (ie the length of the domain [...]

When you put your website in maintenance mode, it’s a good idea to return a HTTP 503 error code to the client.
This code indicates that “the server is currently unable to handle the request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server”.
The 503 code is used to avoid crawlers or [...]

If you want to redirect visitors that access your website without the ‘www’, you can use mod_redirect with the following syntax:
$HTTP[”host”] =~ “^lescampeurs\.org” {
url.redirect = (
”^/(.*)$” => “http://www.lescampeurs.org/$1″
)
}

Links:

Lighttpd mod_redirect
HTTP 3xx status codes

Cronolog is log rotation program which gives you a lot of options to template the log destination files. The common use is to split logs by year / month / day.
Here is how to configure Apache to send log entries to cronolog :
CustomLog “|/usr/sbin/cronolog /home/log/apache2/%Y-%m-%d_domain.com_access.log” combined
This will create a log file named 2008-06-02_domain.com_access.log for today.
Cronolog [...]

If you’re using SVN to control your web application, your certainly need to deny access to .svn sub-directories.
With Apache2
<DirectoryMatch “^/.*/\.svn/”>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</DirectoryMatch>
With [...]

After two years of using Pound, Wordpress decided to switch to Nginx as software load balancers for Wordpress.com. Read the full story on Barry’s Blog.

Enable mod_redirect
server.modules += ( “mod_redirect” )
Force your domain with www.
$HTTP["host"] =~ “^domain\.com$” {
url.redirect = ( “^/(.*)” => “http://www.domain.com/$1″ )
}
Force your domain without www.
$HTTP["host"] =~ “^www\.domain\.com$” {
url.redirect = ( “^/(.*)” => “http://domain.com/$1″ )
}
Redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS
$SERVER["socket"] == “:80″ {
$HTTP["host"] =~ “(.*)” {
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