Open Source Web Site Construction Kit [Paperback]

Thomas Schenk (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 2002

This book gives readers a comprehensive survey of the best tools for building and maintaining Web sites. In a methodical and clear manner, using templates from actual Web sites, the author takes the reader through the process of thinking through and then building an open source Web site. After reading this book, readers will be able to quickly build an effective and scalable Web site.

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This book gives readers a comprehensive survey of the best tools for building and maintaining Web sites. In a methodical and clear manner, using templates from actual Web sites, the author takes the reader through the process of thinking through and then building an open source Web site. After reading this book, readers will be able to buy this book, and riding on the experience of the author quickly build an effective and scalable Web site.

About the Author

Thomas Schenk is currently a Professional Services Engineer for VA Linux, Inc. A former senior systems administrator at Deja.com, he has extensive experience managing large server networks. Currently he works with customers of VA Linux to plan and implement a variety of commercial websites. Other books published by this author: *Red Hat System Administrator Unleashed, Sams' ISBN 0-672-31755-9 *Caldera OpenLinux System Administrator Unleashed, Sams' ISBN 0-672-31769-9

Product Details

• Paperback: 575 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1st edition (January 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672320878
• ISBN-13: 978-0672320873
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,795,065 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I don't know how to summarize a life. Do you follow a chronological series of irrelevant events and discuss your educational and career accomplishments? Or do I write about the loves in your life? Those random pictures and feelings that come to mind in a collage of emotions. The past has never made much sense to me and I randomly think of events as they come to mind. Have you ever had love-sickness? That's part of one's biography, though certainly not linear. I went to school, worked, succeeded beyond my dreams and roamed. How's that?

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Business Web Servers from the Ground Up, October 11, 2001

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Gary Murphy "8th Street Orchestra" (Owen Sound, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Open Source Web Site Construction Kit (Paperback)

I'm a little biased because I hooked Thomas up with the SAMs editors, my brother was a collaborator on his earlier book, and I helped out with this one, but I only confess this to put my biases on the table: I would not have done any of that if I didn't think Thomas Schenk was up to the task, and he exceeded my wildest dreams as an opensource writer.

This is not just another book about configuring webservers. Yes, it includes how to configure the systems, how to cluster servers and all that hot jazz, but far more importantly, this book asks you to face those hard questions that make the difference between a webserver and a business webserver. This is a book from someone who knows what he's talking about; Tom was the server master behind Deja.com and currently consults for Penguin Computing. He knows your server is not a mere capital asset; a successful web venture depends on vitality and communications as much as it depends on throughput and uptime.

This is also not just another book about Linux and Apache; Tom goes to the heart of the business case for opensource on mission critical systems. There are example applications of many alternative server, eBusiness and content management packages, but these are brandnames that will change with time: The essential lessons of opensource that emerge from the many case studies will continue to be valuable long after all these names have vanished from memory.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most helpful for newbies in Open Source, March 5, 2002

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Konstantinos Pigounakis (Univ. of Crete, Greece) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Open Source Web Site Construction Kit (Paperback)

The book is well-written, particularly helpful for people they have little or no experience in Open Source. It saves time giving advice and proposing GNU products for various web-services. The most important for me was Part III, where the subject becomes more demanding and difficult : Scalability, Availability, Site-Management and Load-Balancing. Though I have not test them yet, the proposed solutions seem applicable, sound and reasonable and integrate the endeavour for a complete Open Source environment.