Ask HN: How do you maintain your personal hosted server/vm?
Everyone have their personal hosted server or vm where you host or plan to host personal projects.
how do you maintain it? How do you keep it secure and up to date?
i'm right now giving up and going with a solution that keeps everything local and everytime i push an update to my code it also wipes down the VMS and start fresh. but i figure smarter people have already solved this problem more efficiently...
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 9.3 ms ] threadMonitoring real-time stats of all WEB traffic across all IPs as well as sites with my own custom built, splunk-based analytics app:
http://www.mensk.com/#prettyPhoto/0/
This allows me to see exactly what's hitting my server and not trusting any third party skewed "summary" analytics offerings.
Have few paying hosting clients that are paying for it, so it's essentially free and clients are happy.
If I'd get busier with offering hosting services to other i'd probably get faster server and add cloud Linux to it as well, but my passion os not exactly service administration and hosting, so it works for me as is, pretty ok.