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Notes on AWS Lightsail

Finally, I'm trying Amazon Lightsail. Just few notes:- 1. The direct console is great. This is basically what EC2 should have, instead of web ssh console. You need this console to verify the ssh key fingerprint before connecting through ssh first time. 2. There's simple firewall manager. Only port 22 and 80 opened by default. Click Manage from the instance menu to get into the firewall manager. 3. Now there's apac region !

A brief look into nginx unit

So nginx has come out with it's own application server that can run multiple types of application from PHP, Python and Go, with more languages support coming soon. Deployment is always my topic of interest  so this kind of news definitely caught my eyes. There's not much technical information yet, other than the official blog post . I'm quite interested to know how the python support being implemented. The Application model also remind me to the Webfaction hosting model and with unit HTTP API, it provide possibility to implement something like Webfaction hosting panel where you can add new application and manage it all through just a web interface. Reading through the source code of python module support, it look like python wsgi application is being executed in-process through python C API (my guess), particularly if you look at the line 337:- result = PyObject_CallObject (nxt_py_application, args); For Go application however it simply execute the Go built-in ...