Google offers life time free tier: https://cloud.google.com/free/
Running this and couple of other websites on GCE now, saves me several bucks a month 😀
Jul 272017
Feb 192016
Thanks Let’s Encrypt, I’m running HTTPS now.
Nov 142015
I plan to get these done in the coming 6 months:
- Migrate 25K LOC python to Go, I’m proud to say 16K LOC are unit tests
- Find a reliable redis solution
- Evaluate Shinken
- Downgrade instance for this site
Jul 142015
This is my naive conclusion from short time of observation, everybody hates dealing with multiple ticketing systems, and it seems to me JIRA is much more clear as a “ticketing system”, but corporate/enterprise still prefers Rally, why?
Well, it’s because of corporate cares more about process, care about how much time people spent, either want to track workload, or just want to make sure employees are doing real jobs. On the other size, startups care about getting things done, they really don’t care, or have no time to care about workload, and trust people in the company are willing to take things whenever they are free.
I would like to see how other people think about this.
Jun 262015
Great post: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/devstack/guides/single-machine.html
And now I’m running a private cloud on my server, it’s good enough to test OpenStack stuffs.
May 252015
Just to remind myself in case I get lost again:
- Install Oracle JRE 7, at least for now JRE 8 is not recommended
- Edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-java.list with these lines:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu trusty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu trusty main
- Import GPG
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys EEA14886
- Install
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
- Edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-java.list with these lines:
- Install Cassandra
- Edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cassandra.source.list with these lines
deb http://debian.datastax.com/community 2.1 main deb-src http://debian.datastax.com/community 2.1 main
- Import keys
curl -L http://debian.datastax.com/debian/repo_key | sudo apt-key add -
- Install
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install cassandra
- Edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cassandra.source.list with these lines
Apr 082015
git rebase -i --root develop
Mar 222015
echo package-name hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections
So that it will not be upgraded.
Reason: a package’s ppa has a brand new version that is not compatible with previous version, but since the new version is there so Ubuntu downloaded and installed the new version, and it made almost everything on my system broken.
Have to lock down that package, unless I’m so sure I can upgrade it.
Mar 052015
I don’t like or dislike upstart or whatever system service management facility, however, I do hope Ubuntu can give me a single solution to handle system service.
So to disable a service, you can try System-V style:
update-rc.d apache2 disable
or upstart style:
echo manual > /etc/init/cron.override
or try chkconfig though it’s less common on Ubuntu. Sure, you may want to check /etc/rc.local as well for auto-start services that are not system service.
Feb 222015
I need to find out a good configuration to fail2ban attackers who targeting my blog, I checked log and found that 404 may not be a good indicator as some themes have 404 for all the time, I will check to see if I can use non-media resources to do rate-limit like solution.