by Derian » Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:14 pm
Thanks. I appreciate the offer.
That said, we really don't have a need for SSL at all. I've considered it, but it just doesn't make sense.
Also, I'm a Linux Engineer for Rackspace, so we're totally cool on hosting. Since it looks like you might know some Linux, you might enjoy knowing a bit more about what we're running. We're curently running on a dedicated VM (based on OpenStack now, I believe -- if not now, then very soon). nginx handles HTTP requests and serves all static content. Dynamic content (PHP, mostly) is reverse proxied back to to a PHP-FPM daemon and a local MySQL instance.
The entirety of the site is actually pretty small. The biggest portion is by far the Wiki, which comes in at just under 2GB all inclusive. belegarth.com itself is about 200MB, while the board is just over 500MB.
If we ever grow significantly beyond this or if things start to slow down in a way such that horizontal scaling isn't as efficient as it should be, I can easily start pushing static content out to a CDN which would take a large chunk of load off of the server (well, servers at that point).
This is pretty rad for us as I have 100% control and don't have to worry about any of the potential issues that stem from a shared hosting environment. There are no other customers on my server running ancient WordPress blogs that will get hacked at the drop of a hat, no one spamming out of my MTA or anything along those lines.
Additionally, I can very easily add in pretty much full HA capabilities at any time for no cost, which is pretty slick.
- Derian -
"An octopus has eight arms, three hearts, five *, two Super Bowl rings, a beak, and the power to solve crimes."