Natural WordPress benchmarking

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I am planning on benchmarking various OS and HTTP daemons to host my WordPress site. A well-known (free) tool to benchmark Web servers is ApacheBench. But it can only use a single URL for each benchmark session.

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SOGo on OpenBSD/macppc

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Thanks to sebastia@, I learned that SOGo was not build on OpenBSD/macppc (4.9) because GNUstep wasn’t:

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VNC server on OpenBSD

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Here are quick notes on how to setup a VNC server on OpenBSD. This allows a remote connexion to a X11 session running on an OpenBSD server or workstation.

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Trust the gandi.net CA on OpenBSD

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This website provides some HTTPS service. I bought the SSL certificate from a French provider called “Gandi”. Unfortunately, it seems their issuer is not known by OpenBSD nor is their own CA trusted by Firefox. As this is in the FAQ, they provide the CA file to manually import in Firefox. Once done, Firefox trusts the whole SSL path. We’ll use this to install the SSL trust path in OpenBSD ; in the OpenSSL instance.

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Expand a Synology Hybrid RAID volume

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I own a Synology DS409slim with two 1TB Toshiba and two 500GB Western Digital disks. Configured using SHR (Synology Hybrid RAID), it allows one volume split on those four disks. I bought this NAS because it uses 2.5" disks and because of the SHR feature. I had one 1TB Toshiba in my MacBook but I took it off and planned on putting it in the NAS, replacing one of the 500GB disk. Here’s what happened.

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