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Are you a web developer looking to star being your own sysadmin? This week we give you some tips and tricks for just that.

Geek Tools – 03:05

• Water Powered Clock

Webapps – 06:09

• Scrim - Safe email links
• WishListr - Dead simple online wishlist

System Administration for Web Developers – 12:45

• SSH
  • Turn root login off
  • Change from default port
  • Consider using a key instead of password or key/pass combo
• A good terminal based editor
  • For making configuration changes or emergency code edits
• Useful stats/monitoring tools
  • free -m
  • top
  • df -h
  • du -h
• Lamp stack
  • Know  how to update your OS
  • php.ini configuration
• Does your app/site need to send email?
  • smtp server setup
• Apache
  • Know how to restart
  • Make sure it is set to start on server reboot
  • enable mod_rewrite
  • .htaccess
    • 301 redirects
    • http basic auth
• Most things depend on an accurate time
  • NTP
  • ntpd
• Tools
  • Capistrano
  • Fabric
  • Puppet
  • Chef
• Backups
  • Check out Ep. 93: Disaster Recovery
  • Database, files, and configs.
• Tips for getting started
  • Setup a development server at home using LAMP, WAMP
  • Make a VM with virtualbox or VMware