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adPothieron What.cd's Gazelle on GitHub

Ocelot, their custom-made C++ tracker is a nice piece of code. They were forced to drop out php-based and XBTT-based trackers some years ago when the server load from their became huge peer swarm became unmanageable.

TorrentFreak made a great story about this[1].

[1] http://torrentfreak.com/what-cd-debuts-lightweight-tracker-f...

adPothieron Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted

Combined with AdBlock, I use Ghostery[1], which is a nice add-on (Chrome/FF/Safari/Opera/IE) : it blocks any javascript from ads networks, but also from analytics, trackers, socials plugins (and more) , and also cookies from the same trackers. Everything is configurable per-tracker and per-website.

It's quite a must-have if you don't want to be the product on the Internet. And a good failover over Ad-block.

[1]. http://www.ghostery.com/

adPothieron What it looks like when Google links to your website

The metric system still fails to impose itself universally, so we can wait some time before the decimal mark is unified...

adPothieron Nginx just became the most used web server among the top 1000 websites

Nginx works very well with PHP-FPM through FastCGI, and there is about zero configuration needed as everything is up and running after an apt-get (minus some commented configuration regarding php in Nginx).

I think more and more php-based app are powered by this kind of stack.