Moving to Nginx and Gunicorn

Selectel resumed cloud server service selectel, so I decided to create new server in new server pool and also move from lighttpd to nginx.

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Sending SMS from server

Several days ago I looked into details of how my selectel server spend money and saw that it spends about 20 roubles per day (about $0.8) and has 100% CPU load for about 2 last days. I connected to it and saw that some 'sh' proccess is hang. I just killed it.

So as to react in time to such cases I decided to set up an SMS notification.

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Hosting moved to selectel cloud

As my server is gone down suddenly and I don't have a chance to find out what is with it, I decided to move my blog to cloud platform.

I chose Selectel as hosting provider. Prices start from 50 roubles (about $1.85), this is only for keeping virtual machine for month, without running it. For my blog traffic (almost 0 :) ) overall price will be about 70 roubles (about $2.60) per month, it's very cheap I think.

UPD: After month usage, it costs about 44 roubles (about $1.57).

English version of my blog

I decided to improve my English skills, so I will write posts in English and in Russian (in English first).

Also, I wrote an improvement to blohg engine to ease multi-language blogging. In face of Flask 0.7, I will try to rewrite multi-language support using Blueprint.

QR-codes

After post about QR-codes, version without using Google Chart API.

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Speeding up films and podcasts

In my free time I like to listen to podcasts and watch series. But I think most of them I can watch/listen accelerated.

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About blohg

Blohg is a blog engine written in Python.

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Blog moved

I found blog engine that is "right" for me. Engine is based on rst and mercurial, blohg. Old blog is here: http://blogspot.f-y.name

QR-codes

I wrote pair of scripts to tranfer small junks of text information (e.g. URLs) from notebook to phone (Nokia N900) and vice versa.

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Scheduled ping for monitoring network health

Ping loss is appeared in our LAN recently. To monitor this I wrote a script that ping the gateway one time in 30 minutes and show results on my site.

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