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Completely off-topic: Is that a custom WP theme? I love the look and feel of this article. On-topic: Thank you for this. I am going to purchase a DO box this w

Completely off-topic: Is that a custom WP theme? I love the look and feel of this article. On-topic: Thank you for this. I am going to purchase a DO box this weekend and play around with nginx instead of apache. For some reason when I last tried to use nginx, I could not get location {} to work. Granted it was some time ago. Does anyone have any resources on nginx as a load balancer?

jenius 13y ago
Actually it's a very simple custom non-wordpress theme I put together in about an hour, the entire thing built on top of http://roots.cx http://roots.cx dynamic content : ) Another note, the share button at the bottom (just pushed a minute ago so hard refresh if it's cached) is from this plugin we put together and have been enjoying so far: https://github.com/carrot/share-button https://github.com/carrot/share-button Glad you enjoyed the article! Let us know if you run into any trouble, happy to help or add debugging techniques etc
- justincormack 13y ago
  I can't read the article on my Android phone because I can't resize it to fit on screen. So please remove the theme or fix it...
  - jenius 13y ago
    Oh man, I'm sorry! I totally dropped the ball on mobile - I'm going to push a responsive design right now. Sorry Justin! EDIT: Updated, should work great on mobile devices now
    - justincormack 13y ago
      Much better!
TallboyOne 13y ago
Basic introduction: http://blog.jsdelivr.com/2013/01/nginx-load-balancing-basics.html http://blog.jsdelivr.com/2013/01/nginx-load-balancing-basics...
pajju 13y ago
Avoid using Digital Ocean(DO). We had very very bad experience with them, file-system corruption, hardware failures. And we are still unable to recover all our data. And so far, no hope! They don't answer any of the questions properly, my team is very upset. We felt, they don't have much technical expertise in managing servers. DO might be okay for testing and learning, but never use them for any production setups. Update: we are still struggling to get our data back. No hopes so far. We shall write a detailed blog post on the whole experience with Digital Ocean.
- jenius 13y ago
  On the contrary, if you just need a box to tinker with sysops stuff and learn, digital ocean is a fantastic solution. Cheap and I've never had a bad experience or anything unreliable. I can't speak to using it to store lots of not-backed-up files or running a gigantic production server, but for learning about syops it works great, to get back to the purpose of this article.
  - samsnelling 13y ago
    That's kind of where I'm at right now. Normally all of my side projects are hosted on PAAS (Appfog is my current choice, but we will see since their acquisition). I really just want to practice setting up and tearing down configurations. I think DO will be a good choice for this.
    - jenius 13y ago
      Was in that exact same spot a couple months ago and did the same thing. I was eyeing DO for a while and one day folded and paid the (really no brainer) $5. I've learned a ton since then and it has been absolutely worth it for me. I actually transitioned all my apps off any other PAAS platforms (mostly nodejitsu, timed nicely with their 3x price increase) and am now hosting everything I run off a single $5 digital ocean box, which actually is saving me a bit of money, and deploys are a lot smoother. The company I work at, Carrot, is also hosting all of carrot.is on a $5 DO box, including this article, which has had no issues coping with the 600+ people on site at a time that have come with this HN blitz.

jenius 13y ago

Actually it's a very simple custom non-wordpress theme I put together in about an hour, the entire thing built on top of http://roots.cx http://roots.cx dynamic content : ) Another note, the share button at the bottom (just pushed a minute ago so hard refresh if it's cached) is from this plugin we put together and have been enjoying so far: https://github.com/carrot/share-button https://github.com/carrot/share-button Glad you enjoyed the article! Let us know if you run into any trouble, happy to help or add debugging techniques etc

justincormack 13y ago
I can't read the article on my Android phone because I can't resize it to fit on screen. So please remove the theme or fix it...
- jenius 13y ago
  Oh man, I'm sorry! I totally dropped the ball on mobile - I'm going to push a responsive design right now. Sorry Justin! EDIT: Updated, should work great on mobile devices now
  - justincormack 13y ago
    Much better!

TallboyOne 13y ago

Basic introduction: http://blog.jsdelivr.com/2013/01/nginx-load-balancing-basics.html http://blog.jsdelivr.com/2013/01/nginx-load-balancing-basics...

pajju 13y ago

Avoid using Digital Ocean(DO). We had very very bad experience with them, file-system corruption, hardware failures. And we are still unable to recover all our data. And so far, no hope! They don't answer any of the questions properly, my team is very upset. We felt, they don't have much technical expertise in managing servers. DO might be okay for testing and learning, but never use them for any production setups. Update: we are still struggling to get our data back. No hopes so far. We shall write a detailed blog post on the whole experience with Digital Ocean.

jenius 13y ago
On the contrary, if you just need a box to tinker with sysops stuff and learn, digital ocean is a fantastic solution. Cheap and I've never had a bad experience or anything unreliable. I can't speak to using it to store lots of not-backed-up files or running a gigantic production server, but for learning about syops it works great, to get back to the purpose of this article.
- samsnelling 13y ago
  That's kind of where I'm at right now. Normally all of my side projects are hosted on PAAS (Appfog is my current choice, but we will see since their acquisition). I really just want to practice setting up and tearing down configurations. I think DO will be a good choice for this.
  - jenius 13y ago
    Was in that exact same spot a couple months ago and did the same thing. I was eyeing DO for a while and one day folded and paid the (really no brainer) $5. I've learned a ton since then and it has been absolutely worth it for me. I actually transitioned all my apps off any other PAAS platforms (mostly nodejitsu, timed nicely with their 3x price increase) and am now hosting everything I run off a single $5 digital ocean box, which actually is saving me a bit of money, and deploys are a lot smoother. The company I work at, Carrot, is also hosting all of carrot.is on a $5 DO box, including this article, which has had no issues coping with the 600+ people on site at a time that have come with this HN blitz.