Thanks to Jeremy Jarvis i received a Brightbox beta account . I’m tring to blog about my experience on http://blog.bbox.selfip.net/ . Not sure how long I can keep that accounts, so maybe the blog will become unavailable soon.
Still there was a good way to try the new Restolog version – multiuser, multiply blogs per user.

There was interesting benchmark – apache2, nginx and litespeed on the VPS account (256MB RAM):

• Litespeed Benchmark
• NginX Benchmark
• Apache2 Benchmark

All servers perform pretty much the same, but for VPS with not so much memory, Litespeed seems the best option.

Created a first beta version of Restolog-1.2 . What’s new in it:

• Textile markup for articles body (act_as_textiled plugin)
• REST client (‘script/rester’)
• New REST API calls added (mostly for articles and comments)
• Some documentation (README, USAGE, CHANGELOG)

Download:

• tarballs: restolog-1.2b1.tgz
• SVN: svn checkout http://restolog.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ restolog

Why it is still beta?

• update via XML still do not work
• authentication via keys inside the URL still not possible (Basic Authentication for now)

And by request from Benjamin there is pretty detailed Restolog USAGE file included. Enjoy

I modified a little the original Alisdair McDiarmid’s RestBlog sources and
created very simple blog system . Made an announce to the Rails ML. The copy of it follows:

Very simple blog system based on REST/CRUD ideas. Sources (all credits
going to the authors, i just combined their work):

• RestBlog by Alisdair McDiarmid
• restful_authentication plugin by techno-weenie
• graseful delete degradation

The purpose is mostly proof of concept, not typo/mephisto etc. competition.