On September 24, 1&1 Internet celebrated the official opening of its US data center with a ribbon cutting ceremony – in Lenexa, Kansas.

We review Pulling Strings with Puppet, Scalix: Linux Administrator's Guide, and Pro PHP: Patterns, Frameworks, Testing and More.

Developer Brett Wynkoop has written the code for a simple web server called Simple/Small/Shell Web Server (SWS) in the form of a shell script.

Apache has ruled the web since the mid-90s, but not all users are happy with it. Recent competitors Cherokee and Lighttpd offer an uncomplicated alternative for users who are looking for something light.

A virtual server with a dynamic DNS service might just be the easiest way for a home user to implement an Internet website.

The challenge of a search engine is to provide the most relevance to its users.
Website response speed helps search engines to assess the site’s relevance because speed is one of the criteria recognised in a successful site.
If a more powerful, faster server is used, the site loads more quickly and is rewarded by being moved higher in a the search engines’s displayed results.

New tools for the web appear every day. In this issue, we round up some promising technologies, including Apache's Suexec module, the new WS-Addressing standard, the Helma application server, the Perlbal web server, and microformats.

Version 0.11.0 of Webminstats, a statistics module for the Web-based administration tool, has just been released.