So I was planning to start an ISP in India but a few things happened and I gave on the idea. I did however do some research which I can share with you and hopefully you’ll find that interesting and helpful. 🙂 An Internet Service Provider or an ISP is basically an organisation or a… Read More »
Short blog post to post a script I wrote to backup LXC containers with encryption and push notifications. 🙂 Manually backing up LXC containers was a pain and I wrote a script in some free time that I had to automate all of this. Plus it pushes updates to Twitter, Pushbullet and email and encrypts… Read More »
Excited by the prospect for Steam for Linux I fired up Steam to download some games. The problem was that finding a mirror with the best speed for seeming problematic. So I decided to do some analysis. 😀 I am testing all of this from AS55836 Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited. I primarily use this for… Read More »
Yesterday I presented a talk at GDG(Google Developer Group) Devfest about Stop using Docker! Fun with Linux containers and networking. The venue was International Centre Goa. Many people had a lot of doubts. Of course there wasn’t enough time for everyone to get all their queries in and things were a little difficult for many… Read More »
My setup guide heavily depends on Nginx so you may have to change a few things if you are using some other web server. But this should be helpful never the less. 🙂 I was looking for a nice Google Analytics alternative since I did not want to trust my user’s data with Google. I… Read More »
IPv6 is now enabled on this blog. Getting it to work wasn’t as straight forward as I initially thought since my hosting provider Contabo gives only a single /64 and I use many LXC containers to host different things. Thankfully my friend Anurag helped me out. You can read his blog post about it here.… Read More »
This is not very hard to do but I had a tough time figuring out how to get this to work. I’m just writing this down in case someone finds it helpful. In this scenario I’m running Nginx as the reverse proxy with SSL enabled on it and WordPress on a separate Nginx server… Read More »
There are a myriad of resources on the internet on how to get this working but not as well compiled together as I’d like. That is the reason I am writing this post. 🙂 I am not going to explain what Elliptic Curve Cryptography(ECC) is since Cloudflare has a very nice blog post on this.… Read More »
This is meant for websites running on a VPS/dedicated servers only. This should work with modifications for static websites but was meant for websites with a database, especially WordPress. I was inspired by the huge number of really expensive and crap plugins for WordPress to handle backups and my guru/buddy Anurag Bhatia to write this… Read More »
Please do not use this. On newer kernels it fries the phone’s PSU. Note: This is only applicable for the Snapdragon/Pro version of the Redmi Note 3. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 has a very good battery life. However Qualcomm Quick charge(QC) 2.0 would massively help with the charging times for the huge 4050 mAh… Read More »