Posts in category sysadmin - page 6

07 Nov 2018

Renew LetsEncrypt Cert and Remove Unused Domains

Dev SysAdmin

Is it possible to renew a Let's Encrypt certificate and drop one or more domains at the same time? Yes it is.

02 Mar 2018

Proxy Specific Sites with PAC Files

Dev SysAdmin

Proxy auto-config files, or PAC files, are a neat way to programmatically decide whether to send requests for a website via a proxy or direct. This post is a brief introduction on how to write and install such a file.

15 Feb 2018

When does running git clone give a dirty working directory?

Dev Git SysAdmin

I started working on a new programming task and needed to make an edit to some code in one of our main repos. This was the first time I'd used the repo on this machine. This is also where things started to get strange...

19 Jan 2018

Why Host Static Sites on Netlify?

Dev Git SysAdmin

I moved a couple of micro websites off my own server and instead started hosting them with Github Pages. Since then another option has presented itself in the form of Netlify. This post is a quick look at Netlify's offering compared to Github Pages and the reasons I'm quickly becoming a fan.

02 Jan 2018

New Year Tidy Up: Hosting Static Sites

Dev Git SysAdmin

It's that time of year where lots of blog authors are publishing their 2017 year-in-review style posts. I enjoy those and had a loose idea to do one myself. Instead, I got distracted trying to tidy up several years worth of confusion on an old VPS instance.

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