Today, while installing Rails 3, my computer suffered a power outage. This does not happen very often, in fact, this was actually due to the computer overheating! After pouring cold water over the keyboard, I restarted the computer and continuing the Rails 3 installation the process, but to my shock and horror, it failed with [...]
I recently decided to move a website of mine from Apache to Cherokee. Why? Because Cherokee is fast and Google likes fast sites. Apparently, Cherokee is the fastest web server in town. I first read about Cherokee in Linux Format magazine and decided to give it a shot with my AdFlickr site which I have [...]
I run into this situation all the time. I want to try out a new software (usually it’s a database of somesort) and I want to try it on a clean server installation. I don’t want to mess up my client or an existing server or have to install the OS fresh each time, so [...]
In Part 1 we setup a new virtual host instance using Slicehost. The steps can be pretty much the same for any new Ubuntu server. It’s just that in this case we are using 10.04 on Slicehost. Once you have the slice up and running then you probably want to do an update and then [...]
Here is a quick step by step for setting up a new Slicehost slice and installing WordPress on that slice. In this example we will use a Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) 32-bit 256 MB slice. The first part is a condensed version of these instructions. The second part introduces a bash script that will install [...]