The power failures are very rare in Denmark, but nonetheless this one managed to take out the build box. The website itself is not affected, but there are no updates for the time being.

The PECL4WIN project hosts a repository of PECL extensions precompiled for the Windows platform. The packaging and distribution system used by PECL is shared with its sister, PEAR.

UPDATE (11.15.2006) - The box is back up and working at 100% again (faulty memory was to blame). A new build has already been created.

We host a wide variety of sites, covering everything from converting your garage into a living space to video game addictions. Because we are such a small operation, being hit by a link from a big site such as Digg would be both a blessing and a curse.

In order to place our ads on each page, we use PHP's auto_append_file feature to run our advertisement code. By using PHP's other neato function, auto_prepend_file, I can create a small piece of PHP code to detect when the site is being hit by Digg. In this situation, I have chosen to use Lighttpd to handle the increased loads, because of its proven high performance with large numbers of concurrent connections.

In his example code, he shows how you can detect when a user is coming from a digg.com page and take them to a cached version of the page they've requested (with the .cache extension).