So I’ve finally decided to make the switch to a distributed source control system.  The benefits are well-documented, and I’ve grown weary of Subversion.  After some research, I decided Mercurial would be best for me.  Since I have OCD, and I wanted to push via HTTP to my remote repository, I did some homework and figured out how to get everything running on my VPS.  If you’d like to see how I did it, read on. Step 1:  Prerequisites Since my VPS runs Ubuntu Linux 9.10, there are a few packages to install before we get started.  Run the following command to...

As you could probably guess, my blog (and several sites of my friends) are hosted on a lovely Linux VPS provided by Linode.  I honestly can’t say enough nice things about the service and reliability I’ve received from Linode (and no they don’t pay me to speak highly of them!).  But that’s not really the point of this post.  The point is actually quite simple:  My VPS doesn’t have a lot of memory, and I’m always wary of my resource consumption.  A few months ago, I moved from Apache to lighttpd for this reason, alone.  Let’s face it… Apache is a memory hog, and that problem...