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Setting up a PXE boot environment – Part 2: GRUB config per host, autoinstall (unattended install)

Now that UEFI has been around for over a decade, it’s time to focus on this modern firmware standard. If you’re still stuck with legacy BIOS, the configs are similar, but this article will only cover UEFI – As an extra incentive that upgrading to relatively newer stack rather than upcycling old stuff, for both your sanity and electricity bill. Some napkin math of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) would justify the investments.

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.