One thing that certainly makes using NginX a fun experience is that since the version I installed when I first got the slice, it has already gone through 2 revisions. Thankfully the upgrade process could not be any simpler. There is a pretty on the run replacement method, which is outlined on their wiki, or for my case, there’s just take it offline for the whole 5-10 seconds that it takes to do the upgrade.

On the to fix list there are really two items, maybe 3.

1. Rewrite rules for WordPress, seem to continue to elude me. What seems to be working for several other people is still not giving me the desired result. This is for now fairly low priority as I don’t care about SEO on my personal blog.

2. FastCGI, seems to sometimes go on vacation. I’ve had to restart it once now, and I guess we’ll see if it was a fluke or if this is something that needs to be looked into and fixed. I haven’t seen this on any of our in-house servers, but granted none of them run this exact setup, yet.

3. I should probably look into using SFTP as per the suggestion to another user on the SliceHost forum, I mean it’s sort of amusing to watch the attempted brute-force attacks against your FTP server login, but I don’t like them. Even though they’re not going to get the right login and I take FTP offline when I don’t use it, still, it’s just a small to fix thing.

Tonight, I think I need to write something not technical