Huh, I somehow lost my custom CSS for this site. Probably when I was updating Simplelog… I don’t (obviously) have a very good, backed-up setup for my SliceHost. Argh!

This brings me to several questions I’ve been wanting to ask the world of talented developers I know (yes you!):

What are you guys using?

I’m curious about directory structures - should I put my sites in my home directory? /usr/local? /www?

What about version control? When you’re using third party apps (like SimpleLog) that are themselves hosted in version control systems like svn or git, do you then export or clone them and stick them in your own local SCM, or perhaps github?

Web servers? Is everyone on Nginx? What are your configs like for it? Did you use ErrTheBlog’s Nginx config generator to start off? I know some people who use LightSpeed and that looks snazzy.

And how about your dot files? I’m talking about .vimrc, .irbrc, .bashrc/.tchsrc/etc. I made a repo in my github acct for these, but it seems like overkill. How should I deploy that anyway? A lot of dotfiles go into their own directories, and I’m not sure how best to structure my repo for it.

There’s a lot of ground to cover here, I guess. Help :)