NGINX Tuning For Best Performance

For this configuration you can use web server you like, i decided, because i work mostly with it to use nginx.

Generally, properly configured nginx can handle up to 400K to 500K requests per second (clustered), most what i saw is 50K to 80K (non-clustered) reque...

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Configuring the OpenWhisk server

Manually setting up Openwhisk and CouchDB on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 server.

Based on the OpenWhisk Ansible README, which at the time of writing is missing some key steps - hence this new guide.

1. Dependencies

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo ap...

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Steps to setup easy-openvpn on Ubuntu Core

This gist is to accompany a more wordy blog post which covers everything in much more detail. These are the easily copy/pastable steps.

For this you will need:-

• Raspberry Pi 2 or 3, PSU, keyboard, LAN connection, HDMI cable and display
• Laptop/desk...

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Install vsftpd

SSH to your EC2 server. Type:

sudo yum install vsftpd

Open up the FTP ports on your EC2 instance

Next, you'll need to open up the FTP ports on your EC2 server. Log in to the AWS EC2 Management Console and select Security Groups from the navigation tree on the left. Selec...

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