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I tend to get myself involved with projects that have a lot of small files — on the order of a few million.  These files are often only good to me for a short period of time, such as when I’m importing a million xml files into a SQL Database for processing later.  I’ve also worked on projects where millions of spam emails pile up in queues to be filtered by humans, which they obviously never will be, and simply need to be removed.

The annoying thing about this is the time/effort it takes to remove all of these files quickly and with as little system resource consumption as possible.

In this entry I’m going to show you a couple of ways you can set your self up for quick removal of files that you know (or are pretty sure) will be temporary, so you need to quickly remove them.

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I’ve decided to release a web-hosting application that I had built from scratch a couple of years ago, ServAdmin. You can access the SVN repository on Google code here: http://servadmin.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

 Some of the features:

• Single administrative panel to control any number of servers (unlimited)
• Written from scratch — does not rely on 3rd party packages
• Written in about 95% PHP5 code. 
• Secure communication between servers using stunnel.
  • This allows you to have servers spread across the Internet where communications between them will happen on open networks, and still maintain a secure environment.
• OS-independent - Right now I’ve only written the ‘Linux’ server pieces of code, but this could be easily applied to any operation system.  It is designed in such a way that you simply have to write the layer for whatever OS you’re concerned with.
• Controls MySQL, Apache, Bind and vpopmail to make a complete hosting environment.

If anybody out there is interested in picking up development, just let me know.  It is really only a few polishes away from being a complete product.