Infrastructure

cgi-builds.com

Set up a VPS-backed site with nginx, DNS, server config, certificate issuance, and deployment hygiene.

  • nginx
  • Let's Encrypt
  • Ubuntu VPS

cgi-builds.com started as the practical part of the work: getting a domain pointed correctly, standing up nginx, proving the right root directory was serving, and then moving the site onto HTTPS cleanly. The useful lesson was less about any single command and more about understanding where a problem actually lived. DNS, TLS, and web server config all fail differently. Once the layers were separated, getting the site live became straightforward and repeatable.

Some journal entries about this:

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