To verify that SSL caching is on, check the Session-ID across multiple sessions (i.e. resume/reconnect) – they should be the same: openssl s_client -host HOSTNAME -port 443 -reconnect | grep ‘Session-ID:’ The equivalent, using gnutls-cli should be: gnutls-cli -V -r HOSTNAME |grep ‘Session ID’
Month: July 2011
PHP-FPM on Amazon’s Linux
Update (Oct 1, 2011): The release notes for the newest version of Amazon’s Linux (2011.09) state that “PHP scripts have the option of using PHP-FPM.” PHP-FPM is now included in the amzn-main repository, and can be installed via yum install php-fpm (it is installed to /usr/sbin). As a point of mention, if you want to… Continue reading PHP-FPM on Amazon’s Linux
Installing Heartbeat on Amazon’s EC2
I am currently working on setting up a small high availability server cluster on Amazon’s EC2 cloud. Such a setup requires several underlying technologies to work together. Common among these are a distributed file system, a load balancer, and some form of monitoring and resource control. This article looks at the one aspect of ‘monitoring’… Continue reading Installing Heartbeat on Amazon’s EC2