WebDAV with nginx

Written by captainark

This website has been hosted on an Online.net dedicated server since its creation. I've been one of their customers for the past 3 years now, and I still don't have anything bad to say about them.

They recently upgraded their personnal range, and I took the opportunity to upgrade from a single server running all of my services to 2 servers running LXC containers that are hosting my services. …more

MySQL backup script

Written by captainark

I wrote a MySQL database backup script a while back. I known they are more than enough of them already floating around the internet, but hey, I figured I'd share it here anyway. …more

My tmux configuration

Written by captainark

tmux is a terminal mutiplexer. It lets you have multiples shells running in a single terminal emulator window and it keeps those shells running in the background should you need to close your terminal emulator. …more

Private Git repo

Written by captainark

I've decided to migrate this blog to Pelican. I've been playing around with it over the week-end, and it turns out to be way easier to manage than Jekyll. Themes are much easier to install and configure, so it ends up looking better as well!

Since I'm basically recreating this blog from scratch, I've decided to delete the old git repo that was hosting it and to create a new one.

Setting up your own private git repo is pretty easy to achieve and is already well-documented on the Git website. …more

Debian updates with Ansible

Written by captainark

I've recently bought a HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 to play around with LXC and try new stuff.

From the 4 Debian machines I had to keep up-to-date, I now have 7, so it became quite time-consumming to manually SSH to each of them whenever an update became available.

I ended up looking at Ansible to speed up the process and, within an hour, I had a working playbook that updates the debian packages, pip packages and git repos installed on all of my servers with a single command.

I figured I'd share the playbook I use to update the Debian packages! …more