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NileshGR
Personal blog · nileshgr.comprogrammingsystems
NileshGR is a personal blog at nileshgr.com about programming and systems. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The Move from Linux to FreeBSD”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite NileshGR's posts on FastCGI and on a server move from Linux to FreeBSD that reduced PHP, MySQL and Nginx memory use. The comments do not assess the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hello 👋 I am a software engineer with 12+ years of experience across various domains based out of Pune, Maharashtra, India. I started working professionally even before I completed my graduation and that was not due to any compulsion but just curiosity. Hence the title, "A curious generalist". I
Most-linked posts?
- The Move from Linux to FreeBSD2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-11-16
What Hacker News says?
My biggest annoyance with FastCGI is the ambiguity between FastCGI Server, FastCGI Application and FastCGI Proxy in documentation and articles. To give some examples what I mean: - Apache can be a FastCGI server (mod_fcgid) and proxy (mod_proxy_fcgi) - Nginx (and most other Webservers I checked) is only a FastCGI proxy Wikipedia [1] lists both as "Web servers that implement FastCGI". For me it took some time to reco…
Comment linking /2016/07/09/systemd-fastcgi-multiple-processes/
on “Remember FastCGI? (2021)”Submitted The Move from Linux to FreeBSD as a story · 118 points
HN discussionBetter memory usage due to the (BSD-like) kernel, vs Linux could be one of the factors. "My server earlier used to consume over 1 GB of memory for running PHP, MySQL and Nginx. Now, it doesn’t even touch 500 MB! It’s always less than 500 MB. Everything is just same, configuration, etc. Only OS changed." http://nileshgr.com/2013/06/07/the-move-from-linux-to-freebs... Slightly off topic but I really wish mainstream VP…
Comment linking /2013/06/07/the-move-from-linux-to-freebsd
on “Why 1GB RAM in iOS Gives at Par Performance with 3GB Android Phone?”Submitted Getting CherryPy Working With uWSGI as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Golang on OpenWrt MIPS (2020) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nginx and Metalog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Securing FreeBSD server with Fail2Ban and IPFW as a story · 1 points
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