I mistakenly assumed daemon mode was the default for mod_wsgi. Suppose I should rtfm.

"cronolog is a simple filter program that reads log file entries from standard input and writes each entry to the output file specified by a filename template and the current date and time. When the expanded filename changes, the current file is closed and a new one opened. cronolog is intended to be used in conjunction with a Web server, such as Apache, to split the access log into daily or monthly logs."

Twitter's description of how they are using Varnish, an HTTP accelerator (similar to Squid.)

For pesky shared hosts (not mine thankfully) that don't let you place files outside of the web root

Should vastly improve performance on binary file services

Sam Ruby gives this a "huh?"... but I suppose it is worth keeping an eye on.

Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication, and a web administration interface. It runs in a Java servlet container such as T

"A stripped-down implementation of the server side of the Atom Publishing Protocol as an Apache module, implemented in C"