gcloud
Installing Akeneo on Google Cloud
Installing Akeneo manually on Google Cloud Platform using Debian & Nginx.
hosting
I enjoy building web servers and web clusters, and have really enjoyed the move to vm/cloud over the years and the ability to spin up a computer at will.
dev ops
Move a Google Cloud Project From A Personal Account to an Organisation
Migrate a google cloud platform project from a personal account to an organisation
cloudflare
Expose Real IP Addresses in Cloudflare & Nginx
How to expose a users real IP address in Nginx logs when using Cloudflare. By default everything routed through Cloudflare shows up in your logs as a Cloudflare server IP.
magento
Debian Server Setup & Magento 2 Installation
How to setup a Debian server on GCP and then install and configure Nginx and PHP to run Magento.
magento
Building a Magento Cluster
Building a Magento cluster with seperate admin server on GCP using SQL, Filestore and Redis.
dev ops
How to Load Test a Website With Locust
How to load test a website using the Locust python tool. I wanted to find out what a google cloud instance running LEMP could handle.
cloudflare
Why I Use Cloudflare For DNS, Firewall & More
I first started using Cloudflare when I was sick of being up and nights and weekends fending off scrapers and bots from a large e-commerce site.
Which Google Cloud Platform Instance For a Small LEMP Stack
I choose and configure a Google Cloud Platform e2-small instance to run a Debian web server with Nginx, PHP and MariaDB.
hosting
Self Hosting a Blog - BookStack vs Hugo vs Ghost
I tried out BookStack, Hugo and Ghost to find out which one I wanted to use for my blog. I ended up keeping BookStack for personal docs and you are reading this on Ghost.