Since we’ll be travelling for the forseeable future, I decided to move the blog off the little server and up to Amazon Web Services, where it will be somebody else’s problem to keep it running, accessable and online.
Technology, sailing and the rest of life.
Since we’ll be travelling for the forseeable future, I decided to move the blog off the little server and up to Amazon Web Services, where it will be somebody else’s problem to keep it running, accessable and online.
Initially, not seeing many problems, and kudos to the project teams who undoubtedly worked had to bring things to this level.
First, I succumbed to the lure of more screen space. Then, the Ryzen hype from AMD was just irresistible, and I succumbed again. And finally, I’ve ditched Windows for Linux (ubuntu). But I feel fine about it.
New standard for single-tenant, multi-vdir sites: configure nginx as outer server with paths for each service; run the services as separate vdirs with whatever server they ship with; let nginx terminate the SSL sessions for all of the vdirs and run the service in HTTP. This is easier if you use a single wildcard cert for the domain.
My first direct engagement with Ngnix, employing its vaunted reverse proxy capability.