Just saw Igor Sysoev announced the release of Nginx 0.6.4 on the mailing list, and saw him demonstrating the new proxy_store and fastcgi_store directives (which have been available since 0.6.3), making “mirror on demand” so much easier to do as an developer.

Here is the configuration code Ignor demonstrated in his email:

Saw this gem on someone’s signature at WebHostingTalk.com, probably the biggest discussion forums on web hosting matters — OversellingTalk.com.

Overselling: A term used by numerous WHT members as an apparent attempt to ‘bring down the big bad hosting companies’. Often used in a derogatory manner without substantiated foundation, i.e. actual previous experience with said host.

The domain was registered back in April, and currently hosted on DreamHost, one of a few web hosting companies that actually make overselling work.