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http://jacobmumm.com/2011/08/29/node-as-a-service-in-ubuntu-11-04-with-upstart-monit-and-forever-js/
Useful article covering how to create an upstart script for nodejs, also applies to coffeescript. I didn't use this one so much, I used the other one, but this has some other useful info.
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http://howtonode.org/deploying-node-upstart-monit
Handy article covering how to create an upstart script for nodejs, also applies to coffeescript.
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http://www.badllama.com/content/monitor-varnish-zabbix
Handy little script to monitor varnish stats from zabbix. Awesome.
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https://www.berrange.com/posts/2011/12/18/multi-factor-ssh-authentication-using-yubikey-and-ssh-public-keys-together/
Article on how to use a YubiKey alongside SSH RSA key based login. Bit of a hack, but it appears to work. Nice.
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https://www.yubico.com/
The YubiKey is a USB device which appears to the computer as a keyboard. It has only 1 button, which when pressed, enters a one-time-password and then enter (can be configured). This can be verified against an online server, or offline via a few tools.
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10731099/byobu-hard-status-line-scrolls-the-screen-when-updating
Explains how to fix putty so it plays nicely with byobu. Requires two settings, Windows > Translation > UTF8, and Terminal > Keyboard > XTerm R6. Haven't been able to verify, but reports suggest it works.
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http://www.mindtwist.de/main/linux/5-linux-security/6-how-to-use-one-time-ssh-passwords-on-debianubuntu.html
Very interesting article on how to enable single use password logon for Ubuntu. Requires a thing called opie and a few config file changes. Seems very useful...
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http://copperegg.com/
Yet another monitoring app. Copper Egg combines real user monitoring, generic metric logging, server monitoring and maybe other stuff(?) into one application. Pricing starts at $19/month. Not unreasonable.
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http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto
Simple way to deploy code with git remote and git push. Ingeniously simple.
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http://www.intodns.com/
Really detailed tool that diagnoses in great detail each step of the DNS resolution process for a domain. Free and invaluable.
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http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25265
A zabbix monitoring script for varnish ported from cacti.
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http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/9020-how-log-top-command.html
Useful forum post that explains the `top -b` option, making top output text suitable for piping / writing to file, like `top -bn1 | mail`...
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http://serverfault.com/questions/399487/cant-connect-to-mysql-using-self-signed-ssl-certificate
This one question contains much of the necessary wisdom around mysql and SSL certificates. Incredibly helpful.
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http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-mysql-database-replication-with-ssl-encryption-on-centos-5.4
Good introduction on setting up mysql replication with SSL encryption. Some of the options have changed in mysql 5.5 (no moremaster-connect-retry) and some settings are not applicable to Ubuntu, but the gist of it is useful.
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https://github.com/papertrail/remote_syslog/blob/master/examples/log_files.yml.example.advanced#L11
Examples of how to use remote_syslog for fancier stuff like excluding some lines from log files. Useful.
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http://www.gpmd.co.uk/blog/getting-and-scaling-magento-in-the-cloud/
An article on how to run magento in "the cloud". Includes a split admin / front end severs. Useful.
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http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2012/02/10/the-performance-golden-rule/
90% of time is in the front end. Top 10 sites = 74%, top 10k = 92%, top 50k = 87%.
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https://papertrailapp.com/
Logging aggregation, simple, cheap, effective, get it.
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http://www.strangeloopnetworks.com/
In a similar vein to cloudflare / yottaa, strangeloop offer a performance enhancement service through a physical / cloud based appliance. It uses the standard techniques, js/css combining, sprites, cdn, tailoring to the browser, and so on. No pricing. :-(
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http://www.yottaa.com/
Similar to CloudFlare but more expensive ($30/mth no ssl, $130/mth with ssl) it accelerates web sites through the use of CDN, js/css combining, etc.
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https://www.cloudflare.com/
loudFlare is an automated CDN / content acceleration type service. It acts as a reverse proxy providing some sort of heuristic security scanning, logging of traffic, and an automatically configured CDN. $15 + $5/site/month.
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https://unixbhaskar.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/measure-website-response-time-through-curl/
Handy article on how to get the response times out of curl. The key is the --write-out / -w option.
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http://blitz.io/
Performance testing, monitoring, and some kind of fix-it service, mostly in private beta. Flashy, funky, cool, style design and chat with limited technical details.
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http://runslikeclockwork.com/pages/monit_aggregator
A free hosted version of the open source monit-aggregator written by Matt Fawcett. Appears to be free with no node restriction.
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https://github.com/mattfawcett/monit-aggregator
Source code of monit-aggregator by Matt Fawcett / runslikeclockwork.com. He offers a free hosted version at that site.
