apticron is a shell script that send you an email report when new packages are available on your debian server. Install apticron As root, do: apt-get install apticron apticron configuration via /etc/apticron/apticron.conf To receive reports on your email change the EMAIL variable in the configuration file. By default, reports are sent to the root user. [...]
When you put your website in maintenance mode, it’s a good idea to return a HTTP 503 error code to the client. This code indicates that “the server is currently unable to handle the request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server”. The 503 code is used to avoid crawlers or caching [...]
To rotate your nginx log files, you can use the log file handler provided by FreeBSD: newsyslog. Configuring /etc/newsyslog.conf /var/log/nginx-access.log 644 7 1024 * JC /var/run/nginx.pid /var/log/nginx-error.log 644 7 1024 * JC /var/run/nginx.pid Before log rotation: -rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 104278002 Jul 16 11:35 nginx-access.log -rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 1509531 Jul 16 11:17 nginx-error.log After [...]