[plug] static rendering phpbb alternative.

[Matthew Lambie]

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 13:40 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 13:35 +0800, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> > A friend who runs a bbs has had some problems with assholes ddosing the
> > bbs (its an anti racist bbs) and it seems they are usually 'way too many
> > wget pagegrab' type attacks. Solution;- static html.
> > 
> > Problem is I cant find any static rendering bbs's . Any suggestions?
> 
> Use a reverse proxy.

At the last few LCAs Rasmus Lerdorf has discussed the Yahoo! setup which
involves squid boxes pointing 'the wrong way' and tiered Apache and
MySQL servers. Whilst this would be overkill for a small BBS, the
concepts might translate. 

Check out his past talks, which I believe are all at
http://talks.php.net

-- 

Thanks,

Matthew Lambie
Technical Director

THE FRONTIER GROUP, PTY. LTD.
Suite 17/44 Kings Park Road
West Perth, WA  6005
Australia

w: http://thefrontiergroup.com.au
e: mlambie at thefrontiergroup.com.au
f: +61 (08) 6263 4444
m: +61 408 866 997