kylemanna

Price breakdown vs DigitalOcean, Vultr and Linode:

RAM / CPU Cores / STORAGE / Transfer

$5/mo
LightSail: 512MB, 1, 20GB SSD, 1TB
DO:        512MB, 1, 20GB SSD, 1TB
VULTR:     768MB, 1, 15GB SSD, 1TB

$10/mo

johanndt

TL;DR

Install Postgres 9.5, and then:

sudo pg_dropcluster 9.5 main --stop
sudo pg_upgradecluster 9.3 main
sudo pg_dropcluster 9.3 main

cannikin

# This task will notify Sentry via their API[1] that you have deployed
# a new release. It uses the release timestamp as the `version`
# (like 20151113182847) and the git ref as the optional `ref` value.
#
# This task requires several environment variables be set (or just 
# hardcode the values in here if you like living on the edge):
#
#   ENV['SENTRY_API_ENDPOINT'] : API endpoint, https://app.getsentry.com
#   ENV['SENTRY_ORG']          : the organization for this app
#   ENV['SENTRY_PROJECT']      : the project for this app

brianhempel

require "net/http"

def start_server
  # Remove the X to enable the parameters for tuning.
  # These are the default values as of Ruby 2.2.0.
  @child = spawn(<<-EOC.split.join(" "))
    XRUBY_GC_HEAP_FREE_SLOTS=4096
    XRUBY_GC_HEAP_INIT_SLOTS=10000
    XRUBY_GC_HEAP_GROWTH_FACTOR=1.8
    XRUBY_GC_HEAP_GROWTH_MAX_SLOTS=0

wacaw

namespace :deploy do
  desc "Load the initial schema - it will WIPE your database, use with care"
  task :db_schema_load do
    on roles(:db) do
      puts <<-EOF

      ************************** WARNING ***************************
      If you type [yes], rake db:schema:load will WIPE your database
      any other input will cancel the operation.
      **************************************************************

ibussieres

echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ precise-pgdg main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.3 postgresql-server-dev-9.3 postgresql-contrib-9.3 -y
 
sudo su - postgres -c "psql template1 -p 5433 -c 'CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS hstore;'"
sudo su - postgres -c "psql template1 -p 5433 -c 'CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS \"uuid-ossp\";'"
sudo su - postgres -c "service postgresql stop"
sudo su - postgres -c '/usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin/pg_upgrade -b /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin -B /usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin -d /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main/ -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main/ -O "-c config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.3/main/postgresql.conf" -o "-c config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.1/main/postgresql.conf"'
 

tarmotalu

namespace :deploy do
  task :confirmation do
    puts <<-WARN

    ========================================================================

      WARNING: You're about to perform actions on production server(s)
      Please confirm that all your intentions are kind and friendly

    ========================================================================

bradmontgomery

Setting up a SSL Cert from Comodo

I use Namecheap.com as a registrar, and they resale SSL Certs from a number of other companies, including Comodo.

These are the steps I went through to set up an SSL cert.

Purchase the cert

statique

# rbenv inspired by https://gist.github.com/1441139
# make sure running as root user

apt-get -y update
apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.32-5-amd64
apt-get -y upgrade
apt-get -y install curl git-core python-software-properties build-essential git-core curl libssl-dev libreadline5 libreadline5-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libxslt-dev libxml2-dev

# add-apt-repository
curl -o /usr/sbin/add-apt-repository  http://blog.anantshri.info/content/uploads/2010/09/add-apt-repository.sh.txtchmod o+x /usr/sbin/add-apt-repository

bendangelo

# Install with:
# bash < <(curl -L https://raw.github.com/gist/2767174)

echo "Installing S3cmd..."
wget -O- -q http://s3tools.org/repo/deb-all/stable/s3tools.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo wget -O/etc/apt/sources.list.d/s3tools.list http://s3tools.org/repo/deb-all/stable/s3tools.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install s3cmd
echo "Done"