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DevOps GNU/Linux

Cheapest VPS Linux Server VM in South Africa

TLDR; As at October 2022 – Hostking.co.za has the cheapest Linux VPS – it is a smooth experience provisioning What company provides the cheapest Linux KVM based VPS (Virtual private server) in South Africa. What is a VPS? It is a virtual computer – running on a hypervisor (a bigger computer). It has its own […]

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DevOps GNU/Linux Kong Security Server

Generate a letencrypt ssl certificate for kong api gateway

So you have installed kong and you are ready for it to go into production. Whoops, nossl certificate yet? It is important that you add it as credentials will be moving between your gateway and credentials could be acquired by any party in between the client and your server. But the standalone nginx plugin for […]

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django python

Adding Time taken to respond to a request in the header of a Django Rest Framework Response

Ever wanted to add the time taken for a response to your API, so the client knows how long the server took to send a response? I first noticed this cool feature on AWX, a management platform for ansible playbooks. Their response headers looked like this: So I checked out their source code and copied […]