Hi all,

This post is a sequel of my last one - in this one I will demonstrate how I used SNI to have two different domains pointing to the same IP address using SSL.

For this demonstration, I'm going to use h5ai - "a modern file indexers for HTTP servers" which …

The easiest way I've found by far to install Ruby on CentOS is by using the Software Collections - here's a link for the Ruby 2.2 collection.

This is how I did it on CentOS 6.x:

1. First install the collections utilities:

yum install scl-utils -y

2. Then install …

Here's the steps I took to install the Hiawatha web server along with Nibbleblog

1. Install the Anku CentOS & Fedora repos:

yum install http://anku.ecualinux.com/20/x86_64/anku-release-8-1.noarch.rpm -y

2. Now install the hiawatha package:

yum install hiawatha -y

3. Make Hiawatha start on boot:

chkconfig …

Tomb makes managing encrypted volumes easy - in fact very easy. This is a must if you're like me and want to store sensitive stuff on the cloud.

You can download Tomb from here.

1. Install some dependencies:

yum install ncurses-devel cryptsetup zsh gettext -y
yum install http://pkgs.repoforge.org …

These are the steps I took to install Monitorix on a brand new VPS.

1. Make sure you have the EPEL repo set up as Monitorix has some dependencies there

yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm

2. Then install the latest version of Monitorix …

Updated on 06/18/2017 with new download links

Stolen from here

1. Download the source code:

wget https://github.com/kdlucas/byte-unixbench/archive/v5.1.3.tar.gz

2. Install dependencies for CentOS 6.x:

yum install -y gcc time perl-Time-HiRes

3. Untar and change directory:

tar zxvf UnixBench5 …

On CentOS 6.x this is super easy to install since Python 2.6.x is already installed (Yum dependency).

1. Get the script:

wget -O speedtest-cli https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest_cli.py

2. Make it executable:

chmod +x speedtest-cli

3. Run it:

./speedtest-cli

Sample output:

Retrieving …

In a previous post I went through the steps necessary to install MooseFS 1.6.27 on FreeBSD 10.

MooseFS has since then been bumped up to version 2.0.60 but unfortunately the FreeBSD ports are still on 1.6.27. In the future I am planning to look …

Some quick notes on setting up CARP on FreeBSD.

Most of this is based on the FreeBSD Handbook page

1. Add the carp kernel module - edit the file /boot/loader.conf and add the line

carp_load="YES"

^ Make sure that this is done on all hosts To load the module …

So I'm using Atlantic.net more and more and I figured it'd be nice to be able to access their API using Ruby.

At the moment they have Bash scripts to access their API (unfortunately the Bash scripts also have some Perl requirements) and a PHP example - so here's a …