May 2006

This tutorial shows how to set up a two-node Apache web server cluster that provides high-availability. In front of the Apache cluster we create a load balancer that splits up incoming requests between the two Apache nodes. Our load balancer will in fact consist out of two load balancer nodes that monitor each other using heartbeat.

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Yes. It is really very, very free. There is no prepayment, no minimum use, no subscription, no monthly fee, no nothing. You just download and install Skype and then you start calling. Both the caller and the number called must be in either the US or Canada. There are no strings attached.

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Congratulations to the CakePHP community! Version 1.0 is the first stable release by the community. CakePHP has also rolled out a great looking design [ www.cakephp.org ]. We have been following CakePHP for a few months now and are very excited to start developing our PHP applications based on this framework.

Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.

Cake is taking a simalar approach to MVC web development for PHP as RoR has accomplished for Ruby. In my opinion Cake is the only publicy (and FREE!!) distributed MVC framework written in PHP that compares to Ruby on Rails.

Update: No longer using the Cakephp framework.