So after doing some more benchmarks, I decided to take the leap and move to nginx for the web server here at The Eleven. After 15+ years of using apache, I decided that for the sake of memory and CPU that I'd jump to nginx. Rewriting server rewrites has been a pain in the ass for various php apps that liberally use .htaccess for rewrites, but I finished it off finally for all of my vhosts.

The one app that I haven't moved to nginx directly is nagios, so nginx just proxies it to apache.

I haven't ...

So I actually snuck a new version of Songbird for Mac OSX PPC up to the server about a month ago. The dmg includes both Songbird and some of the extensions, including a working version of the Shoutcast plugin. At times I've had some instability with this version, so as always be sure to backup your configuration inside ~/Library/Application Support/Songbird2. (This directory is from memory, since I've mothballed my PPC Mac for the moment.)

Songbird_1.10.0a_macosx-ppc.dmg

Give me some feedback, if you use it. I'll probably turn on the Mac once in a ...