Archive for February, 2015
Building Nginx SRPMS
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux, Sysadmin on February 16, 2015
Companion to my earlier post, this actually has commands
Path to building Nginx Mainline RPMs for Fedora & CentOS
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux, Programming, Sysadmin on February 13, 2015
Or: How I spent an afternoon doing a deep dive into the RPM spec and solving a problem for myself tl;dr – Nginx Mainline packages are being built for Fedora & CentOS at copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/kyl191/nginx-mainline/ My webserver’s running nginx 1.4.7, a version that hasn’t gotten non-bugfix attention since March 2013, according to the changelog. Oddly enough […]
My State of Serving, aka VPS recap
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Personal, Sysadmin on February 12, 2015
So I wrote a bunch about VPSes a few months ago, and what I thought my future looked like with them. Well, a bunch has changed since then, and will going forward, so let’s go: Full out cloud hosting Still good for buy-as-you-need systems, still not right for my usecase. Other than reading about price […]