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Hardening Nginx

Nginx is a great web server which offers really high performance with very little resource consumption. This makes it ideal for docker containers, small embedded devices, or even just dealing with a ton of connections. I also often use Nginx’s powerful proxy capabilities. Nginx is one of those applications I use quite often, pretty much for anything related to http(s). Having said that, it becomes very important for me to be able to deploy this in a secure manner.

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Migrating old Ubuntu XEN VMs to VMware

Migrations are a common part of being a Virtualization Admin. Most commonly you will be asked to perform P2V (physical to virtual). However, there are times when you will have to migrate between virtual platforms.