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Life & fun · September 15, 2020

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Building Pastebin for text using Nginx and Lua

Pastebin is a well known term for such services (where you paste whatever you want to share). The functionality is also simple and that’s why I decided to build a pastebin service using only NGINX.

Building Pastebin for text using Nginx and Lua launched on September 15, 2020 with 48 votes, #839 of 3,898 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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Building Pastebin for text using Nginx and Lua is a project that demonstrates how to create a pastebin service—a tool for sharing and storing text snippets—using Nginx web server and Lua scripting language. It is for developers interested in learning how these technologies work together to build a practical web application. The project shows how to leverage Nginx's capabilities and Lua's scripting power to handle text storage and retrieval functionality.

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A full-time startup founder sharing my thoughts on building things, my journey, the startup world, and beyond. At times I use different services for sharing text or code snippets. Pastebin is a well known term for such services (where you paste whatever you want to share). The functionality is also simple (mostly) and that’s why I decided to build a pastebin service using only NGINX. I have been a fan of NGINX the moment I learnt of it. In my earlier days (about 5 yrs ago), I was an Apache guy . But the moment I became familiar with NGINX and its vast power, I never looked at any other webserver software. I often share text or code snippets online and that is why, It was fun to build it…from usamaejaz.com

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