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This week:
Took a close, hard look at Capistrano for the deployment and management of “production” sites. Became intimately familiar with SSL certificates under Apache (and thanks to the good people at GoDaddy, it ended up being a lot less painful than I expected). Got a good lesson in being “visible” to my employer as a [...]

I wanted a comprehensive log analyzer application for my httpd server and AWStats is a fantastic package for just such a need! Getting it deployed on my Slicehost image was an entirely simple task, but I thought I’d post the instructions for anyone else who may need to do the same.

We’re (theoretically) configured in such a way that – should the need arise – we can theoretically start up another server instance running nginx, theoretically duplicate our master httpd instance, do a little magic and presto-chango, the nginx instance should theoretically load balance (theoretically) across two or more httpd servers.

Our servers are now running “in the cloud.” We can now add, copy and delete instances of our servers to scale with demand.