I’m sure that meeting many of the developers of Cherokee in person will be the highlight for me.

If by any chance you’ll be in Madrid that weekend, don’t forget to register in time and join us.

It’s gonna be legen… wait for it… dary!

You can read Alvaro’s announcement, or you can check out the Summit web-site.

Cherokee will be an important topic, but it won’t be the only one. Those will be a couple of days fully dedicated to High Performance and Scalable Web topics, so there’s room for everyone to join in.  We are commited to reaching the 1.0 milestone of Cherokee by then, so we will also have a party to celebrate it.

It’s going to be fun. I’ll be a speaker at the summit and I’m really looking forward to personally meeting many of the members of the project. Thanks to our sponsors we’ve managed to make the event completely free, so don’t forget to register while we still have free spots!

UPDATE: We’ve written a little brochure (~100KB) that can be used to  let your colleagues know about the summit. Do not hesitate to send it to any coworker or friend who would be interested in attending a High Performance and Scalable Web event.

From here I’d like to thank P.V. Anthony for his invaluable advice on audio production and my old friend Sara Genge for lending her voice to the project (and for her awesome fiction writing, but that is another story).

We wanted to brag about our little baby. After all, not every serious web server out there has a killer interface to configure it. Take a look at our Cherokee Web Server introductory screen-cast.

You might want to see it at full screen for readability.

It’s just one of many to come. We’ve got some more planned, so I’ll let you know when they’re ready.

If you expect a party kit from us you’ve come to the wrong place. We actually believe our software is so good that it is a prize for its own merits. It has been a while since I last announced one of our releases, mainly because I didn’t have much to add besides what was told on the official announcements. As always, a lot of development effort is being invested in our flag product, and this is something that doesn’t go by unnoticed. This weekend we decided to release Cherokee 0.99.25. As you can tell by the .25 part, lots of fixes and enhancements have been added steadily release after release.

I hope you enjoy it. We’ve tried to update all the documentation for this release, and we’ve automated most of the recipes in our cookbook by adding lots and lots of configuration Wizards, so hopefully you’ll be able to set up anything in a matter of seconds. As always feedback and feature requests are more than welcome at the mailing lists. Here are links to download the tarball and the online documentation.

Besides our regular bug fixes and performance enhancements, it is shipped with some new features. SSI support was being requested every now and then, the SSL infrastructure has been reworked and the new reverse proxy is working flawlessly. The Windows build is not a reality yet, but great advances have been made towards that end. Cherokee is currently working under Windows, but the admin is not. And it has to be cross compiled, for now. Anyway, we’re one step closer to releasing a binary Windows build ;)

We have a lot of fresh ideas, and as always feedback and feature requests are more than welcome at the mailing lists. Here are links to download and read the online documentation with tons of new information and recipes. Enjoy! ;)

UPDATE: Link to the official anouncement.

Yep. It is! Octality‘s first and very own Sun Fire 12000. Yes, I know it was recently retired by Sun, but still 52 processors and 288GB of RAM make a hell of machine to test things on. The photograph was taken this morning at the storage room.

Being dedicated to High Performance does have its benefits, don’t you think? It’s deffinitely getting interesting around here. I bet not many start ups get this kind of hardware after just a few months of existence.

By the way, this fella isn’t precisely small. It is 191x85x166 cm and weights 987kg.

Unfortunately not everything are good news. After putting in a lot of effort fixing the Windows build, we finally decided to postpone this until 0.8.1 the next major release. It has been too long since the last release, and having so many improvements it doesn’t make much sense to hold the relase back just to offer it simultaneously to all platforms. This was the only thing holding us back beside some bugs that had to be fixed, so now this is our one big remaining task for the next release ;)

This is our best release ever. By far. Improved performance, interface and documentation enhancements and lots of new features: much faster I/O cache, huge FastCGI performance improvement, updates (and binary upgrades) are now handled gracefully with no downtime, the load balancing is better and a lot more. Alvaro just sent the official release note minutes ago.

We have a lot of fresh ideas, and as always feedback and feature requests are more than welcome at the mailing lists. Here is the download link. Enjoy it! ;)

UPDATE: I’ve just updated the documentation available at the site.

UPDATE: A quick update to fix some minor bugs has been released: Cherokee 0.8.1.