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How we built Singup.org

A nerdy visualisation of the activity on the singup.org Git repository.

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Unwire your instance

When deploying on the cloud, you have to make sure you are not tied to your machine because at any point it might not be there anymore.

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Scalr: Find farm’s load balancer hostname

As you can’t point the root of a domain to an EC2 load balancer yet, we’ve decided to have a small Apache instance with an elastic ip attached to it and have it proxy all the incoming traffic to …

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Exporting Scalr instance parameters as bash variables

Scalr.net is a very good service when it comes to hosting in the cloud, but it does have its little annoyances.
One of them is that you can’t access parameters passed to instances, as bash variables, and considering it has …

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Managing /etc/hosts with Ghost

As web developers, we change our hosts file on a day to day basis while testing pre-launch projects, that aren’t hosted on their domain yet.
Now with cloud computing we’re editing it even more often and I don’t know about …

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