tonysan’s blog – Page 2 – Things I do for fun

Configure a http/2 Nginx using Let’s Encrypt free SSL certificate

Once upon a time (circa. 2015), it would cost you for a few dozen bucks, to a few hundred dollars, per year, to get that shiny green little locky thingy appear on your URL bar in the browser. The cost would be justifiable for someone that runs a large business on the web, not so much for small companies or someone who occasionally runs a random httpd somewhere, like me. That was the dark time of the internet.

Setting up a LAMP alternative on Ubuntu 16.04 – Nginx / HHVM / MariaDB / Nodejs

When I started my freelancer career a decade ago, AppServ was my development environment. It is essentially an one-click setup WAMP. I run WordPress, xtCommerce, MediaWiki, and lots of other popular packages. Time flies, people changed, things changed. And the time to upgrade my old server has come.

Setting up a FreeNAS from scratch / FreeNAS 開箱與組裝

更新: 似乎有許多外站連結到這篇文章，像是這篇， Google 翻譯出來慘不忍睹，所以我稍微翻譯了一下

Edit: So I got linked from a lot of places like this and Google Translate totally butchered it, so I decided to translate it myself.

世界上有二種硬碟：壞掉的硬碟，與將會壞掉的硬碟。三個月前，我手上的二顆舊硬碟被列為前者。上面沒有什麼重要資料，但少了二顆硬碟，很不方便。硬碟就跟醬油一樣，用完了就得出去添購。

There are two kinds of hard drive: broken ones; and will be broken ones. Two of my hard drives were categorized as the latter three months ago. There is nothing important on those, just inconvenient – thou shalt not be short on storage ever.