My server was on Ubuntu 20.04, but due to the end-of-life of that LTS version n…
Continue reading post "Server upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04"server posts
I have finally, effectively, fully said goodbye to Dreamhost after around 14 yea…
Continue reading post "#4018"DreamCompute account cancelled
I have finally shut down my DreamCompute server on Dreamhost after my recent fo…
Continue reading post "DreamCompute account cancelled"Goodbye Dreamhost, hello Digital Ocean
My server, and with it my blog, a client site, and other web properties, was do…
Continue reading post "Goodbye Dreamhost, hello Digital Ocean"Annoying bot and Cloudflare free rate limiting
Some German bot(s) seemed to take interest in one of Cogneato's sites, Rockin H…
Continue reading post "Annoying bot and Cloudflare free rate limiting"JS: ES Modules and Node bare specifiers via response rewrite
I've been playing with JS lately, including ES modules and building with Rollup…
Continue reading post "JS: ES Modules and Node bare specifiers via response rewrite"Looking at Apache logs with command line tools
In my web development career, I have countless times needed to look at Apache l…
Continue reading post "Looking at Apache logs with command line tools"DreamCompute downtime incident 2020
There was another DreamCompute incident leading to downtime of my site / server…
Continue reading post "DreamCompute downtime incident 2020"New server setup at Cogneato
I'm kind of excited that we moved the first site onto a new server setup at Cog…
Continue reading post "New server setup at Cogneato"Somehow, my recent upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 switched the Apache MPM module instal…
Continue reading post "#2889"Server upgrade: Ubuntu 20.04
I upgraded my server from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 this weekend. I largely follow…
Continue reading post "Server upgrade: Ubuntu 20.04"DreamCompute disruption incident
My server and site were down for about 16 hours from Tuesday evening (≈18:08)…
Continue reading post "DreamCompute disruption incident"So, this site was down for like 16 hours due to a botched update of DreamCompute…
Continue reading post "#2284"2784, the first HTTP port
Looking at a page discussing the code of the first web browser (WorldWideWeb), …
Continue reading post "2784, the first HTTP port"HTTP 2 on Ubuntu 18.04 with Apache and PHP
I recently got h2 (HTTP 2.0) running on my server. The new protocol should spe…
Continue reading post "HTTP 2 on Ubuntu 18.04 with Apache and PHP"Woo-hoo. My site is finally sending h2 (HTTP 2.0). Should be a bit faster. I …
Continue reading post "#2103"Server upgrade: Ubuntu 18.04
I've finally updated my server to Ubuntu 18.04 using do-release-upgrade. It to…
Continue reading post "Server upgrade: Ubuntu 18.04"Supporting HTTP 0.9
I recently added support for HTTP 0.9 to my site. I have access to no browsers…
Continue reading post "Supporting HTTP 0.9"Created a github repo for the Ansible / Vagrant setup I made for my site when I …
Continue reading post "#1538"Move: Shared to VPS server
Alright. After much effort, I have moved my site from Dreamhost shared hosting…
Continue reading post "Move: Shared to VPS server"Ideas: Remotely hosted personal site with home data store that syncs as client
This idea is based on my Local + Proxy Remote Hosting for Personal Site idea, b…
Continue reading post "Ideas: Remotely hosted personal site with home data store that syncs as client"Dreamhost must've had an outage of some sort this (last) morning. I noticed a l…
Continue reading post "#1143"Got moved to a new server in a new datacenter by Dreamhost this weekend. Seems …
Continue reading post "#1073"Dreamhost now supports LetsEncrypt even with shared hosting. LetsEncrypt provid…
Continue reading post "#815"And we're back
I haven't posted anything on this site since 2011. My "professional"…
Continue reading post "And we're back"Load Balancers and HTTPS
Until recently, I had no experience working with sites behind load balancers. …
Continue reading post "Load Balancers and HTTPS"hosts file to access local servers
Ever since I had to change to a Speedstream router instead of my old 2wire (con…
Continue reading post "hosts file to access local servers"Wordpress and SVN
I've been thinking about it for a while, but I finally decided to use subversio…
Continue reading post "Wordpress and SVN"back on mac os x
I guess I forgot to mention it, but my server is back to running the mac os, an…
Continue reading post "back on mac os x"mac drive troubles; now using ubuntu
A few weeks ago, I came home and my iBook crashed. One app after another gave …
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