On April 7th, the “Heartbleed” vulnerability was disclosed and a corresponding patch was released. Onehub, with many others, was potentially vulnerable to the exploit; though we have no reason to believe any data was compromised. Within 24-hours all affected services were […]
Recently, there has been a lot of discussion surrounding the Firefox add-on Firesheep. Firesheep is a tool that makes it easy for its user to assume (hijack) the identity of other users on a number of popular websites. I want […]
In a previous post I talked about the best way to handle putting an application into maintenance mode. In addition to sending the appropriate status code (503) for machines, nginx is configured to serve a helpful page to inform users […]
A maintenance page is a common feature in a rails deployment. This feature enables the developers to put their application into “maintenance mode”, returning 503 (Service Temporarily Unavailable) and a helpful page that describes what is happening and when the […]
Linux, MySQL, nginx, Mongrel , Rails, and friends. Big Picture: An ideal setup uses two different servers or virtual machines to split up the load and facilitate scaling. The first machine runs nginx serving static content and acting as a […]
