In the first article of this series I reviewed the steps I took to secure the server and get a basic, reasonably secure set up. The next step is to get Nginx setup for ruby. I chose Nginx because of it’s low memory usage, which is important when trying to squeeze the most [...]
After much frustration with trying to work within the confines of a shared host, I’ve taken the plunge and set up my own server on a linode. I looked around at VPS providers, tried a few, and ended up with linode because of their configuration options, pricing, and choice of either 32 bit or [...]
I spent some time over the last week or so setting up Subversion 1.5.5 and Trac 0.11.1 on my hosted site on a shared linux server. It was a bit tricky and most of the posts I’ve found thus far are a bit out of date, so I thought I’d write one up in [...]
I set out to get WordPress running on a 1and1 shared server today and, given that you’re reading this, you probably guessed that I succeeded. It was actually pretty easy.
Note: My system at home is running windows Vista and I’m using the linux hosting package on a 1and1 shared server. If you’re using [...]
There’s a great resource for compiling ffmpeg on windows here: ffmpeg on Windows
I won’t repeat the directions, but I will mention a few things I had to do to get it to work on Windows Vista. All of the file paths mentioned below assume that you installed everything as directed in the wiki.
Resolving the “Permission [...]
