status update

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

1) Testing new mod_perl modules for:
	- restricting clients (to prevent web spiders)
	- restricting greedy cilents (to prevent web spiders who fake
		their client type)

I have working modules running on my notebook development env.  I need to
tweak the two modules to accept a list of IP's that are "ok".  50% done.

2) Evaluating my Search.pm code.  There are some code clean-ups that need
to be done.  I'm waiting for the URL scheme to stabilize before I fix it's
brokeness which happened after Jason's DB reconfig.

3) Researching Apache performance tuning to reduce memory footprint and
generally speed up page serving.  There are two main ways to get super
web peformance:

1) Two httpd daemons, one for images one for dynamic content.  The image
server would likey NOT be Apache.

2) Using a reverse-proxy (Apache or Squid) to cache the images so that the
mod_perl/PHP heavy Apache processes aren't serving images.

There are also a lot of Apache tuning that can be done.  Problem is that
the documentation isn't well organized/documented.

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