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Getting my SSL Labs A+
2016-12-09
After setting up codemichael.net I’ve been doing some tweaking here and there; one of the things I wanted to do was get an A+ rating from SSL Labs . Turns out it’s pretty easy to do if you’ve only got Nginx as your only front end. I was looking at enabling http/2 and I stumbled upon a very useful guide on Digital Ocean that included some security benefits. It specifically mentions at the bottom that if you do configuration right you’ll end up with and A+, but I ended up tweaking a couple of extra items based on the recommendations on the cipherli.…
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Setting up codemichael.net on AWS
2016-11-18
When I realized that I wanted to throw together a personal blog site again I started looking at my hosting options. Dreamhost has been providing me with cheap hosting for a long time, but I’m a lot pickier than I used to be about what I want to do with my host. I’d been running my role-playing blog on their DreamCompute platform, but I realized that I really should be moving to AWS.…