Dilshan Jayakody published a new build: Couple of months back we decided to create our own media server to store our MP3s and digital photographs. But it gets postpone several months due to unavailability of main-boards and other resources. Finally, after reviewing several prototypes we decided to build our media server using Banana Pi (BPI) […]
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HOW-TO: Add live websites to GIT without interruptions or security risks
Over at the DEV site we’ve been using GIT repositories hosted at BitBucket.org to push (deploy) changes to the live server instantly. It’s way slicker than uploading changed files by FTP, which has no roll back if something goes wrong. It also solves one of our China internet problems: routing to Bitbucket is much more […]
SITE: comments fixed for real, new server coming
Finally, a real fix for the commenting bug that crops up from time to time. Recently, as well as a year and a half ago, WordPress comments would timeout or give NGINX 504 gateway errors. There were two issues, both related to over zealous security settings: Modsecurity was treating the comment submission, by some versions […]
Scheduled server maintenance complete
Our current server has been up non-stop for exactly a year. Over the last few weeks we had some slow loads and site errors, especially in blog comments. We did some scheduled maintenance a few hours ago, and the site was offline for a few minutes here and there. The WordPress backend is up to […]
Using the Arduino Ethernet shield as a server
Luca shows how to turn your Arduino with an Ethernet shield into a server. He goes over how to code your Arduino to handle HTML and HTTP protocols using strings. I’m going to show you a simple program that prints on serial connection browser‘s requests and answers with a simple HTML page. This program is […]
This site powered by 100% renewable energy
Fun fact: our new server at Hetzner is powered by 100% renewable energy. The wind must be blowing and the sun shining, because the server survived its first slashdotting yesterday. Image: Magnus Manske (CC BY-SA)
Server hosting Adafruit style
Adafruit took pity on us and shared some valuable web hosting experience: After hearing about Dangerous Prototype’s search&move to a new hosting provider, we thought we’d post up about our hosting experiences! We currently use ServInt for our hosting provider. They’re what we would classify as a ‘full service’ provider. Basically they own the computer, […]
Web platform: SD card web server demo
This is an old version, see the latest version on the documentation wiki. The goal of this demo is to serve files to a web browser from a microSD card using the web platform hardware. Microchip’s latest TCPIP stack demonstration includes an HTTP server that reads files from FAT formatted SD cards, so there’s no […]
Free PCB Sunday II: Web platform
We go through a lot of prototype PCBs, and end up with lots of extras that we’ll never use. Every Sunday we give away a few professionally-made PCBs from one of our past or future projects, or a related prototype. This week we’re giving away free PCBs for our powerful new embedded web platform. The […]