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Apparently, I’m just on a packaging rampage these days. Recently, Facebook released Tornado. From their site:
Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking
web server and tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed
application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like
web.py or Google's webapp, but with additional tools and
optimizations to take advantage of the underlying
non-blocking infrastructure.
Basically, it’s really cool and very fast and is good for asynchronous, non-blocking operations.
And, you can now install it onto your CentOS 5 server via my repository. If things are working right, simply typing
yum install python26-tornado
should do the trick. Who loves ya baby. 
CentOS (and RHEL) 5 is great for some things, and not so great for others. What these distros do very well is never change. That’s their zen. If you get whatever it is you have working on them, then none of the official updates should ever break anything. They never bump versions, they just backport whatever security fixes are needed for as long as they support the release.
15 CommentsThis site is hosted on a (dv) 3.5 server kindly provided by my employer (mt) Media Temple. I set this one up in a non-standard way, by which I mean, there’s no control panel. We normally ship these VPS servers with the Plesk control panel, but this is what I do for a living so control panels (all of them) generally just get in my way.
Since I don’t have to deal with software dependencies between the control panel and whatever I want to use, I have more freedom to custom compile newer versions of things I use all the time, like PHP and Nginx. Since I’m fairly lazy, I’ve set up my own Yum repository so that it’s easy for me to install all the custom software I build, and keep things up to date when I make new versions of stuff and so on.
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