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How To: Configure Nginx As A Reverse Proxy

June 8, 2009

I previously wrote about why page load times are important and outlined a couple of ways you could improve your web servers performance with regards to page load time. One of the ways I mentioned was to use nginx as a reverse proxy to serve all of your static files while letting Apache handle all [...]

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Setting Up A Home Server

August 2, 2008

What should you be looking for when building/configuring/buying a home server and/or NAS device? A home server unlike a web or production server does not necessarily have to be the most powerful machine. In fact, to keep costs down you may want to consider using an old machine that you have lying around – I [...]

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Home IRC Server

November 8, 2006

We’re rollin’. Last night I got Debian Etch installed on the box (the setup is quite nice) the 40GB drive has the swap / /var /tmp /usr etc while the 300GB drive has /home – so plenty of space there. I downloaded Unreal IRCd and Anope and configured those, took one of my new domain [...]

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Building a Home File Server, IRC Server, and Web Server

November 7, 2006

Recently I’ve been planning on building a file server/IRC Server/Web server of some sort for my home network – so I can access files throughout the network without always having to transfer them over it as well as being able to from over the web. While this is a good thing it is also a [...]

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