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See also:
- AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML - related links and information
- Google plays a very big part in the web these days, here are various pieces of information about it.
- A look at various web hosting packages and options.
- Blogging
- SSL Certificates
- Browser Issues
- Search Tools
- Searching the web
- Web Protocols and References
- Virtual Private Servers
General Web Server Notes
- 2010-Jul-21: On demand print publication from Lulu. Might be a good place to go if you want to self-publish something. At least one person has used this service and appears pleased with it. Swaroop has used Lulu to publish: A Byte of Python, he also mentions PediaPress and some difficulty using Amazon's CreateSpace to do the same thing. Looks like Lulu is going to the DRM dogs and raising fees. One user of the Lulu service writes about his experience using it to self-publish a book on physics. [3353]
- 2010-Jun-26: VISA has finally woken up to the PayPal threat and is entering the micropayment realm with payclick. [9255]
- 2010-Mar-28: Novatel's NovaDrive is a cloud-based file storage service. [9041]
- 2009-Nov-23: PayPal has introduced an open API, discussed here opn Slashdot. [8788]
- 2009-Oct-23: Mozilla's Raindrop could be a competitor to Google's Wave, this is currently built using couchdb for the storage component and the back end is implemented in Python. [8644] [1]
- 2009-Jun-08: Real-world cloud computing takes a look at the current state of cloud computing services. [8099]
- 2009-Jun-04: Bruce Schneier has some thoughts on the risks associated with cloud computing. [8078]
- 2009-May-15: How big are the biggest server farms? Rackspace has over 50000 servers. [7977]
- 2009-Mar-06: pachube is a service for sharing real-time sensor data on the web. [7695]
- 2009-Feb-15: The Top 35 Web Design Galleries on the Internet in case you are in need of some inspiration. [7591]
- 2009-Feb-02: Where do we stand on the standard infrastructure front when it comes to web site software? [7523]
- 2009-Jan-29: OpenGSE is a public version of the Google Servlet Engine that Google uses for things like GMail and Google Calendar. [7502] [1]
- 2008-Dec-03: Suggested ways to detect if your web pages link to infected sites or are being used to serve up malware. [7290]
- 2008-Nov-28: Some free services have been bought up and then turned off. Is this the new web business model? [7274]
- 2008-Nov-20: Consistent hashing is a method to use a hash function to distribute load across a group of non-uniform servers. This can be very useful in combination with a memory caching system. This idea can also be used for other sorts of problems too. hash-ring is a Python module that implements consistent hashing. [5299] [1]
- 2008-Jul-08: Is Cloud Computing greatly over-hyped? [6496]
- 2008-Jun-26: Turning the internet into TV feeds, take the web and broadcast it. One even wonders if this might be useful within one's own home for taking digital information and presenting it on remote displays in a limited way. [6443]
- 2008-Jun-13: Wordle is a neat approach to the tag cloud idea. [6336]
- 2008-Apr-30: The NYTime.com site hand codes their HTML for more efficient delivery. [6004]
- 2008-Apr-25: A linkchecker program written in Python. [5974]
- 2008-Mar-10: GrassyKnoll is a search engine written in Python, the Cheeseshop has it here. It is planned to address the needs of web site, intranet and desktop searching. [5243] [1] [2]
- 2008-Feb-16: The ICANN has voted to eliminate the free trial (domain tasting) period that many scams are being built on. The have also discussed Network Solutions' front running practice (registering domain names automatically under their name whenever someone does a whois search for the name), but have not taken any action on it. An ICANN committee has determined that domain name tasting may be causing problems (probably because of Google's pressure) but that there is nothing wrong with the practice of front running. [5016]
- 2008-Jan-30: A short article on Google Sitemaps and the Google Webmaster Tools. [5018] [1]
- 2008-Jan-15: AllMyData is a project to make a redundant distributed storage grid. The general goal is that you can put some data into the grid and still retrieve it even if a significant part of the grid is not functioning. Another site for this is here. [4180]
- 2008-Jan-04: Photophlow is a new approach to community photo sharing and discussion that mixes Flickr with IRC. [4578]
- 2008-Jan-01: This article explains how poorly behaved botts may kill (or overload) web servers by making many POST connections and writing into them slowly. [4546]
- 2007-Dec-28: Some sneaky sorts may be monitoring whois searches to see what domain name you are searching for, and if it has not been registered yet they go ahead and register it before you get a chance. [4527]
- 2007-Nov-07: Wikipedia writes about the Slashdot effect, the example load graph they include shows a web server going from idle to delivering content at a 900k bytes/sec rate and gradually declining over a 12 hour period. Simple integration of this curve (which is essentially a triangular shape) leads to a total delivery of about 19GB of data in response to Slashdot requests. A visualization of this effect can be seen here. [4039]
- 2007-Nov-06: Google has some additional tools for discovering what pages link to your site than their default link: search. [4030]
- 2007-Oct-13: The success of a Canadian CO-OP ISP called Wireless Nomad, a lesson in competition for the Americans. [3436] [1]
- uServ a web server project from IBM that works from behind firewalls, see also the Slashdot article about it. [5879]
- FlatStack is a very small embedded web server intended to allow for remote (via the internet) control of devices, mentioned here on Slashdot. [5719]
- How to build a high performance web server [5718]
- A neat idea for visualizing web server traffic. Presents it rather like an old 2D video game. [3380]
- What one man would want in his perfect address book. [3379]
- Vodafone is offering a new service that messes with the web browser's agent string; and hence, causes intelligent web sites to deliver full sized web pages rather than more suitable scaled down pages. [3378]
- webdriver is a Java based application that can be used to test web applications by driving the IE and FireFox browsers. [3377]
- Chainsaw, a log analysis application from the Apache camp [3376]
- Testing a web server by fuzzing, sending random input to look for weakness [3375]
- Slashdot discusses re-selling domain names. [3374]
- A Slashdot book review of: The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, by Jason Beaird, ISBN 0975841963. [3373]
- Pipes from Yahoo, an attempt to make the web programmable, discussed here on Slashdot [3372]
- Slashdot discusses Domain Name Registrars [3371]
- Netvibes may be a better way of delivering a user configurable web experience [3370]
- Tubes, a new (Jan'07) P2P file sharing system [3369]
- Can a site disappear from Google? [3368]
- 10 Web "operating systems" reviewed, an overview of what's now possible in the realm of web applications [3367]
- The Webalizer, analyzes web server logs [3366]
- Building a web spider and scrapers in Linux (using Ruby) [3365]
- Transec, a secure authentication tag library, this provides a way for a web server to provide secure account login facilities that can even be used on browsers on untrustworthy PCs. [3364]
- Four seconds is the maximum response time that web surfers will tolerate [3363]
- Mis-tracking web traffic [3362]
- Email bugging, ways of getting fully automatic notification (sometimes called web bugs) that the recipient has received and opened your email. This was used by HP in the infamous PattyMail case in mid-2006. Also a favorite tool of email spammers to see if their spam is reaching a real person. [3361]
- QuickBase, an on-line rent-a-database service [3360]
- In Aug'06 Amazon introduced their "rent-a-grid" virtual computing cloud service [3359]
- linkchecker, a Python application to check websites and HTML documents for broken links [3358]
- DailyChanges.com has listings of changes in domain registrations [3357]
- EBay is going to add context-sensitive auction advertisements [3356]
- The Rise of Crowdsourcing, a look at tapping the mass-intellegence of the world's web users [3355]
- Pound is a reverse-proxy and load-balancer that sits between the external web clients and a set of web servers. It also has the ability to decrypt HTTPS requests from clients and turn them into plain HTTP requests of the servers. [3354]
- The inventor of VisiCalc is working on WikiCalc - a collaborative spreadsheet system [3352]
- voidspace makes mention of the Tradebit service (to handle PayPal transactions and product downloads) [3351]
- Tapestry is a Java-based framework for rapid web development from IBM [3350]
- The Wikimedia Commons site is a central repository for media used in Wikimedia projects [3349]
- Wikipedia is being compared to the Encyclopedia Britanica these days. [3348]
- Putting crowd wisdom to work through prediction markets [3347]
- AudienceConnect THR33, connects any digital property's audience to its author's PayPal account [3346]
- Reducing the length of Amazon.com URLs [3345]
- TinyUrl is a system for making little URLs out of great big ones [3344]
- CAcert, is digital certificate authority for the free community, it is discussed here on Slashdot. More on the Free SSL Certificate project from StartCom Linux [3343]
- Web Pages That Suck is a site that focuses on teaching better web page design through commenting on poor web pages. The Worlds Worst Web is a similar idea [3342]
- A Slashdot review of Apache Cookbook, by Ken Coar & Rich Bowen, ISBN 0596001916 [3341]
- A Slashdot review of: Hardening Apache, by Tony Mobiliy, ISBN: 1590593782 [3340]
- Removing the encryption from the key files for Apache SSL certificates so the server will start without prompting for a password. [3339]
- How to enable HTTPS for Apache [3338]
- Apache, probably the number one in the world, and news about it at www.apacheweek.com. [3337]
- Zope FAQs [3336]
- Zope [3335]
- Write your own Web Server in Java [3334]
- Public Information Servers, an idea for small WiFi-based servers to provide information at train stations and airports and other public places [3333]