Nginx - Stupid SmartOS Tricks

Package Caching on SmartOS

If you use package management software commonly across two or more systems, network package caching may be of benefit to you. In this article, we will setup a package caching solution to service multiple package management systems simultaneously. MethodologyWhile caching packages locally in the file system is already common practice

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Lets Encrypt on SmartOS

If you think encryption is awesome, then the Let's Encrypt project is pretty much free awesomeness. Operating as a crowd-funded 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Let's Encrypt provides a free, automated and open Certificate Authority to the Internet at large. Which certainly beats paying for some third-party to sign your

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SNAP on SmartOS

Despite being used in the open-source web-development world for over a decade, Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) stacks remain a staple of the web-development environment, and show very little signs of fading in general use. These stacks have driven the development of countless startups and large scale production projects