The last two blog posts on PM2 covered the utility overview and guided you through the process management including start, restart, stop and delete processes of various types (Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc). Once you have processes started with PM2, you want to get a comprehensive overview of currently …

Within the previous PM2 post, we introduced the utility and touched some of its capabilities. This articles moves on to the core of PM2: process management. We show you how to list running process, start and restart new process as well as stop and delete running app servers to shut …

Back in May 2015 we updated our server setup and started to use a bunch of new tools to avoid server administration headaches. We mostly rely on Node.js apps (Ghost, our homepage is built on hapi, Strider) and wanted a reliable process manager to keep started servers alive. We …

Within the previous post on how to use nginx load balancing, we showed you the required nginx configuration to pass traffic to a group of available servers. This week, we dive into the advanced nginx configuration like load balancing methods, setting server weights, and health checks. {{outline}} Load Balancing Mechanisms …

Load balancing a great method to reduce latency, improve resource utilization and ultimately increase fault-tolerance. If you already use nginx as a reverse proxy, you can easily update your configuration to enable load balancing functionality for your application. This guide shows you how to configure nginx to forward requests to …

We recently updated our SSL certificate for futurestud.io. We decided to use AES256 for the new SSL certificate which requires a password for the .key file. At this point, we didn’t think of any problems with nginx. The nerve-racking part was waiting in secret! {{outline}} Problem: Nginx Asking …

A week ago we migrated our Future Studio homepage and blog to a new server. Besides, we reconfigured our apps to run with SSL on HTTPS. We use a Gandi Standard SSL certificate which has the problem that an intermediate certificate is required to omit certificate errors on every browser …

Using SSL certificates may cause problems with the certificate chain on older or mobile browsers. The steps below show you how to create a complete certificate from your existing one and how to configure nginx. {{outline}} Gather SSL Certificate Files You need the following three SSL certificate files. You can …