Installing Rails on a fresh Linode Ubuntu Install

We have been playing around with Linode recently and have been moving most of our sites that are hosted on VPS across to Linode. So I thought I would write a quick getting started tutorial on how to install a rails stack on Linode. Login as root, and add a new user (deploy) ssh root@my_linode_ip [...]

Using YSlow, Apache and Passenger to make your site Faster – Stage 1 Expiries

Stage 1. Adding an Expires header to Static Pages with Apache and Phusion Passenger Yslow is a great tool to check how your site compares on several factors relating to speed. I ran a check on Dynamic50.com and I got 76%. I want 100%, so lets get started! Firstly YSlow recommends I add an expires [...]