4Just to share another script that I hacked together to monitor my sites. Nginx is a great web server software and since I last wrote about it more than 2 years ago, I have since pretty much converted all my sites to Nginx (sorry Lighttpd).
Nginx came with this HTTP stub status module that you can [...]
Quick Nginx Status Script
Keeping Your PHP/FastCGI Processes Alive
A few days ago I spotted this forum post on Linode Forum — someone’s Nginx to PHP FastCGI set up kept on throwing 502 Gateway Error after a few days.
I have a mystery and I’m not sure how to solve it. My 360 Linode is running several Wordpress-based sites using nginx. Everything is great, except [...]
EveryDNS Python API and Command Shell
Back in August 2006 I wrote a review on EveryDNS. 2 and half years later nothing much has changed — same interface and same functionality, and it is still serving many of my domains. One thing I don’t like about EveryDNS is its lack of API support, i.e. you cannot programatically update your records. This [...]
Python Web-Application Hosting
1 While I am doing most my own websites are done in PHP, during the day I wrote web-based financial-planning applications for one of the largest deployment in Australia in this simple, elegant and yet powerful programming language — Python.
Python is a great language, and there are many great Python web frame-works out there (which [...]