Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
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Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
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Re: Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
#2Great writeup. One suggestion on the nginx front I might suggest is you add an entry to drop requests for unknown hosts. e.g. http://104.131.41.220
https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx/blob/master/sit...
That github repo is a goldmine for understanding nginx configs too.
Re: Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
#3Great writeup. One suggestion on the nginx front I might suggest is you add an entry to drop requests for unknown hosts. e.g. http://104.131.41.220 https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx/blob/master/sit... That github repo is a goldmine for understanding nginx configs too.
Good call. Thanks, man.
Re: Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
#4I wouldn't recommend running Nginx, Unicorn, Rails, Redis, and PostgreSQL all on one instance. Better to offload the databases onto their own VPS's.
Re: Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
#5I used to prefer the flexibility and efficiency of having my VPS setup, and it's certainly cheaper. Over the past 2 years though, I've saved so much time and sanity using Heroku.
I certainly can understand saving thousands of dollars and improving performance by moving from Heroku to a VPS or bare metal solution, but $90 is not uncomfortable enough for me to warrant the change.
Interesting article!
Re: Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
#6I used to prefer the flexibility and efficiency of having my VPS setup, and it's certainly cheaper. Over the past 2 years though, I've saved so much time and sanity using Heroku. I certainly can understand saving thousands of dollars and improving performance by moving from Heroku to a VPS or bare metal solution, but $90 is not uncomfortable enough for me to warrant the change. Interesting article!
Thanks, David. We use Heroku a TON at work and I absolutely love them. For my small-ish app, I just couldn't afford the extra cash to pay Heroku to manage my app. Thanks for reading!
Re: Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
#7I wouldn't recommend running Nginx, Unicorn, Rails, Redis, and PostgreSQL all on one instance. Better to offload the databases onto their own VPS's.
Agreed. This is just a temporary solution for a small-ish app. Looking forward to solving those problems...
Re: Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
#8Also worth noting that you should run a firewall as part of the basic configuration. AWS includes this via the Security Groups, but with DO you'll need to use iptables or ifw.
Re: Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
#9I think this is a typo; "deafult" instead of "default"
nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/deafultRe: Digital Ocean: Ubuntu, Nginx, Unicorn, Rails
#10Quick question; I don't know much about setting up a Linux server but I found it interesting the post had nothing related to security besides setting up a ssh key and separate user for deployment.
What security-related tasks do you do when setting up a new server? Besides the above, the only things that come to mind for me are:
1. Change ssh port from default. 2. Block unwanted traffic via iptables. 3. Protect ssh with fail2ban.