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Managing your own website hosting

Managing your own website hosting

When it comes to running a website, there's a couple of obvious ways to go; shared hosting, or self hosting. Managed hosting is where your website sits on the same physical server as other websites, and they all share the resources of that server. I'll cover

Horizontally scaling your Ghost blog on DigitalOcean

Horizontally scaling your Ghost blog on DigitalOcean

Preface I had intended to submit this to DigitalOcean as a post, but the topics they require for their community posts don't fit the content of this post. I do not feel the need to hold onto this content to myself until such times as DO are ready

DigitalOcean Droplet unable to resolve mirror locations?

DigitalOcean Droplet unable to resolve mirror locations?

You've set up a Droplet in DigitalOcean and locked things down to restrict access to it via the firewall. Great. You can access the server and make local changes fine, but you try to update or install something, only to be presented with terminal output similar to: Failed

Configure PHP and Apache on DigitalOcean with Ansible

Configure PHP and Apache on DigitalOcean with Ansible

Setting up a webserver for a PHP site is relatively straightforward for a basic configuration. Install and configure Apache (or nginx), install the relevant PHP modules, add the code and off you go. There's loads of tutorials out there for that. But what happens when you have a

Perils of a shared hosting platform

Once again I've been inspired by a stack overflow question [http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/116877/hack-resistant-hosting-solution-for-non-profit] , and it made me think about issues of a shared hosting platform. You know the ones; the "host your site for £2.99 a month" sites. There's

Fun with Firewalls

Firewalls are not fun. I've got to open with that statement as I've been doing a lot of work with firewalls in the past couple of weeks. It's not been the most enjoyable of experiences, but I can see why it is needed. I&