Hosting on Janik von Rotz

Hello Google Cloud Platform and good bye AWS

Fri, 12 Aug 2016 14:41:54 +0000

Yesterday late afternoon I had the great idea to update my AWS EC2 instance to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This website and two other sites are hosted on this machine. A Piwik installation and a mail forwarder as well. So it’s not that much, but still very essential to me. The upgrade didn’t go well, the system literally broke.

Install Koken website

Mon, 31 Aug 2015 06:45:57 +0000

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/2b582ca4e08a6a0e4de2.

Introduction

Koken is a content management system and image publishing application for photographers. Head over to http://koken.me/ to learn more about Koken.

I’m back

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 13:30:00 +0000

My site has been down for one week. So what happened? Well, I still don’t know :)

This website is hosted by Amazon Web Services. One week ago I updated and rebooted my EC2 server. Then it simply didn’t boot anymore. I was very furious, that’s a typical worst case scenario. Luckily the volume wasn’t affected at all, so I was able to get my backups and configuration files without effort.

Install Nginx

Mon, 31 Mar 2014 09:43:19 +0000

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/9345486.

Introduction

Nginx (pronounced “engine-ex”) can be used as an open source reverse proxy server, as well as a load balancer, HTTP cache, and not to forget a fast and powerful web server.

Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution

Sun, 09 Mar 2014 11:16:23 +0000

VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting is the next level up from shared hosting. Due to the explosive progress in cloud computing now everybody can afford a virtual private server.

Compared to a conventional cloud hosting solution with VPS you’ll gain full control of your data. With VPS you are responsible that your data is secured, available and always backed up.

There are many hosters which offer a VPS soution. However the bigger the company in this business the cheaper is their VPS service.