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Grails / Java Web Hosting - critical parameters for memory saving hosting environments

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Frerk Meyer

What is the most memory saving hosting environment for Grails and Java web applications and which parameters influence the memory consumption? This is the start of a series of benchmark results with different combinations of popular hosting components.[Read More]

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Non-root Tomcat on Port 80 on a VPS without Apache

Posted on October 21, 2008 by Frerk Meyer

Java web applications don't need an Apache web server. In memory constrained systems like virtual private servers (VPS) you may get rid of the Apache web server to save memory and gain speed. The idea is to use iptables to replace port 80 in requests to port 8080 of the tomcat connector. Special problem on VPS systems are solved.[Read More]

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