Quick and easy dynamic picker view in Swift 3.

(powerDNS)[https://www.powerdns.com] it’s a great alternative for large and complex BIND setup. Light footprint, and quick setup made that server as my obvious choice for slave server for primary BIND server. So let’s config begins:

Caddy it’s a new kid in the block in category super light web servers. Personally – I love it. Same love I feel to CodeIgniter . To marge both of them, we need only basic rewrite rule to drop into caddyfile.

api.spidersoft.com.au {
        root /var/www/html/spidersoft.com.au
        gzip
        rewrite {
                to {path} {path}/ /index.php?/{uri}
        }
        fastcgi / /var/run/php-sock php
}

PHP is easy. You don’t have to know type of variable, before you use it. But sometimes it’s very problematic especially when we are dealing with JSON.

Biggest advantage with AWS – EC2 service, is that you are paying for each minute of usage. So – why run instances 24/7 if you need them only for 12 hours par day ? You can just start and stop whenever you need them. Obviously we don’t want to forgot to shutdown our instance, or start when we need it. Here is a simple recipe how to automate whole task