A post after almost a year. But finally I have something new to post. Linux Virtual Server is commonly employed for load balancing between multiple servers. The load balancer and real servers share a common IP address called virtual IP. There are three methods for using LVS – Direct Routing, [...]

If you haven’t worked with uWSGI yet for setting up applications of different kinds – let me tell you it’s a Swiss knife. It supports applications written in Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl and recently Java and Go too. One tool to run a lot of stuff – that means life [...]

About 2 months ago, I had a spare VPS at my host, Hetzner. So I decided to play with FreeBSD which was being offered for Hetzner servers and VPSes.That’s how the whole thing started. I didn’t have much problems getting the concepts because it belongs to *nix family of OSes [...]

Metalog is an easily configurable system logger daemon which can be substituted for standard syslogd and klogd. It has one limitation though, that you cannot log to remote machines. It’s very easy to configure Nginx to use Syslog (Metalog, in my case). All you need to do is compile nginx [...]

Linux has a in built timezone converter and I have been using various web services ever since. Timezone is controlled by the TZ environment variable and you can set it to the desired timezone before executing a command, which will make the command think that you are in that particular [...]