Sometimes servers and applications fails, sooner rather than later, that’s because part of our work is to design and continuously planning a robust and highest reliable architecture for our application to ensure his availability most of the time. Depending on
AWS Cloudformation: Defining your stack
AWS Cloudformation is a service that allows you to define your infrastructure on AWS in a template. This template it’s just a json file where you can define all the resources you need to create on your infrastructure, this is
Updates, scripts and other stuff
Hey Guys! This post will be a bit different of the rest, it’s just an update with my last recent works on GitHub and sharing some interesting readings I’ve done. Some time ago since I updated, I uploaded these days
nginx rules to protect wordpress admin
Following my last post about how to ensure a bit more our wordpress instance, today I implemented some basic rules for nginx that can be useful to block some automate brute force attacks to our wordpress administration panel generated by
Script to blacklist bad guys in nginx
There we’ve a small script to generate a list of IP’s to deny in nginx. In that case I use this script to enhance the security of this blog and try to reduce some spam generated from some bots. This
rss2twitter Ruby program
On the last weeks I’ve been playing a bit with Ruby. Until now I’ve to say I’m very comfortable working with this language, it’s amazing very easy to work with data structures and the syntax it’s very simple and clear
Script to count http requests
After some time without updating, due a some changes and some work that require my attention, now I’m returning to post in the blog. Actually I migrate to Ireland, Dublin, since a couple of months, due a job opportunity. I’ve
HTTPS Load Balancer with HAProxy & Stunnel
HAProxy is a load balancer and proxying for TCP and HTTP based applications. This software is supported for very common Unix and Linux based systems, and works with multiple protocols. HAProxy is very common used as a frontend http servers
Enable HTTP Strict Transport Security in Apache & Nginx
HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) is a security protocol that force the use of SSL in the comunication between the web browser and the web server. This standard is recently approved (2 october 2012) by the IETF, but the first
Apache performance tuning
In this days I’ve to work for a little project that require the optimization for a web server, that led me to question for optimizing Apache web server to the best way, depending in different factors. With this post I’ll