Linux

Easy maintenance mode with nginx

So I combined a few solutions I found online to come up with a quick way to set up maintenance mode using nginx. Ideally it shouldn’t happen but in times of emergency in can be good to knock up a quick maintenance page for everyone but your own internal ips.

Verify you’re hidden with conky

I run a few scripts to ensure my identity stays hidden day to day on my
laptop. Here’s a few conky…

Rolling your own mail server with Salt

Recently I decided to migrate my mail server and I took this as an
opportunity to better get…

Thrashing your networks download with dispatch and axel

Say you need to grab a file as fast as possible and you also happen to
have a few network connections knocking about. For example maybe a
separate network for your wireless and ethernet. Maybe you have a phone
with tethering or a 3g…

Using PPAs with Salt-States

I couldn’t seem to find a decent tutorial on using PPA’s to manage repos
with salt states so I’m documenting it here.

Say you want to install golang using these

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:duh/golang…

Screwed Server Checklist

My servers started getting unusably slow at peak hours lately and I
decided, midst panic to vaguely attempt to document the various things I
had to go through to narrow down the problem, anyway I’m sticking them
up here so a) I don’t lose the list and b) it might be of use to someone…