Setup Let’s Encrypt to Secure Your Website

If you don’t know what Let’s Encrypt is, let me briefly explain. Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated and open Certificate Authority (CA) that provides an easy way to obtain and install free TLS/SSL certificates. As mentioned on their website, the key principles behind Let’s Encrypt are: Free: Anyone who owns a domain name can … Continue reading Setup Let’s Encrypt to Secure Your Website

Nginx and passenger install in production environment

So we’ve installed ruby as described in my previous post. But we are nothing with only a ruby installation. To serve our ruby / rails apps, we’ll need a webserver. Until last year, I always used Apache to do the heavy lifting. But after some research, I decided to make the switch to Nginx. Either … Continue reading Nginx and passenger install in production environment