By Greg Nowak, 20 June, 2026 Shorter TLS Certificates Make Renewal Monitoring a Server Job Public TLS lifetimes are moving from 200 days toward 47. Manual renewal is now a reliability risk across ACME, reloads, monitoring, and rollback. Tags TLS Server Administration ACME apache Nginx
By Greg Nowak, 19 May, 2026 NGINX 1.30 changed upstream connection reuse by default: what to check before you upgrade NGINX 1.30 makes upstream HTTP/1.1 keep-alive the default. Here is how to audit backends, clean inherited config, and upgrade without avoidable surprises. Tags Nginx backend compatibility Performance Server Ops
By Greg Nowak, 15 May, 2026 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Raises the TLS Floor: How to Test Legacy Integrations Ubuntu 26.04 LTS retires legacy TLS defaults. Learn how to inventory dependencies, test certificates and stage a rollback-ready upgrade. Tags Ubuntu 26.04 LTS TLS apache Nginx Legacy Integrations
By Greg Nowak, 10 April, 2019 Cloudflare SSL for a VPS: A Practical Setup Without the Gotchas Set up Cloudflare SSL on a VPS with Full (strict), the right origin certificate, clean redirects, and fewer Nginx surprises during client work. Tags Cloudflare SSL VPS Nginx TLS
