I believe that it is best to understand the configuration and behavior of the tools I use. I don’t appreciate a ‘black box’ approach to technology. I’ve always wanted to understand how and why things work the way they do.
I believe that it is best to understand the configuration and behavior of the tools I use. I don’t appreciate a ‘black box’ approach to technology. I’ve always wanted to understand how and why things work the way they do.
There is a common pattern I’ve seen, in guides about Ruby on Rails deployment via Capistrano, to setup a maintenance pages or a maintenance mode. The guides help you configure nginx such that the existence of the maintenance page causes the nginx proxy to return the maintenance page instead of forwarding on to the unicorn/puma/passenger server.
A new Certificate Authority that is free, automated, and open. Check out the Let’s Encrypt website for more information.