Category Archives: Sysadmin

Running Rails

Another dry sysadmin/deployment related post. If any of you Ravelry people want to hear about something in particular, please leave a comment

A few quick notes about how I’m actually running my app:

Web server : nginx. I ran Apache for a while before I switched to nginx. Nginx uses far less resources under load […]

My Sysadmin Toolbox

Writing the software to run a site is only part of the work - you also got to make sure that everything keeps running smoothly. Keeps your systems tuned and happy doesn’t have to be drudgery - I’ve found it to be fun and interesting work as long as you simplify and streamline […]