I got started with system administration sometime in 2004, when I first picked up a copy of Red Hat from a co-worker. I really enjoyed how Linux worked and for years always had a server or two (or six) at home to tinker on. Later on, I co-managed all of the servers for a small …
Tag: sysadmin
Developing on a VPS
Everyone should take some time now and then to look for optimizations in their work environment. For a software developer like myself, this usually involves tools. Also, as a freelancer there are a lot of optimizations that can be done in getting a new client setup, both the business processes (onboarding) as well as getting …
Fog – Automating Cloud Servers
This post is part of my weekly tech learning series, where I take one hour each week to try out a piece of technology that I’d like to learn. Today I decided to try something new. Since I’ve been working with JavaScript libraries for the past few weeks, I wanted to go in a completely …
All aboard!! Now Phusion Passenger powered
A few days ago I converted my Ruby on Rails server to run Phusion Passenger. I’ve been running nginx and mongrels for about a year now and they have served me well (no pun intended). The only problem is my RAM been maxing out, but I guess that happens with 5 mongrels, a sinatra app, …
Check Your Services with Ruby
I just got my Pickaxe v2 book in the mail today and have already put it to good use writing a script to check that the services for a host are up and responding. It uses many of the libraries included with Ruby but also another library ‘net-ping’ which you can get with a gem …