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Server Admin for Programmers
Teaching the server tech you need for development and
production. Eliminating the frustration of server configuration.
Over 20 topics on server admin
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Configuration Management
See how you can tear down and rebuild your servers, making recovery and server management easier through automation.
Containers
Learn how to use Docker and integrate it into development, testing, CI, and production!
Proxies
Load balancing, CDN’s and web caches! See how you can start scaling your applications.
Security
Most security is basic! Learn the basics principles and see how to secure your infrastructure.
PHP
Everyone’s favorite language! See how to setup Nginx, PHP-FPM, Apache and tweak for performance!
Latest Series
Docker in Development Part I
12 Videos
A course on using Docker in development and learning about Docker.
Docker in Development Part II
9 Videos
We continue the Docker in Dev course by using Docker Compose and building a development workflow.
Scaling on Forge
11 Videos
See how to use Forge to scale your Laravel application, using server optimzations, load balancing, and more.
LEMP Stack with PHP-7.1
6 Videos
We see how to install and configure a LEMP stack, using Nginx 1.11 and PHP 7.1
Latest Posts
LetsEncrypt with HAProxy
ProxiesWe cover using LetsEncrypt to create SSL certificates with a HAProxy load balancer. Since we're using LetsEncrypt on a load balancer (HAProxy) which cannot serve the authorization HTTP requests by itself, we have some unique issues to get around. Let's see how!
Mapping Headers in Nginx
PHPWe see how to map Cloudfront's Cloudfront-Forwarded-Proto header to X-Forwarded-Proto, which my Laravel application needed to read.
Multi-Tenancy in Nginx
BeginnersWe see how to configure Nginx to respond to wildcard subdomains, great for multi-tenancy!
Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Nginx
BeginnersWe see how to use Nginx to redirect any non-SSL connection to HTTP.
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