If you don't want to maintain your own server and keep it up to date yourself, you can use a managed vServer. More and more private individuals and companies are turning to such a solution. It is a matter of ...
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Compile Nginx yourself
If you use Debian and rely on Nginx, sooner or later you won't be able to get by with the integrated modules. The solution: compile Nginx yourself. Last updated on Jun 09, 2019 What sounds complicated at first is in practice ...
Continue readingkadder.de accessible via IPv6
A message on our own behalf: www.tech-blogger.net is not only reachable via HTTPS/SPDY, but now also has an IPv6 address. This does not save any IPv4 address (the number of available IPv4 addresses is limited, whereas ...
Continue readingPagespeed: Microcaching with Nginx
Nginx is a very fast web server in itself - but it offers some interesting features for caching, which minimizes accesses to PHP and delivers pages much faster. A short tutorial. For ...
Continue readingPagespeed: Nginx + Memcached + PHP5-FPM
Nginx with PHP5-FPM is already quite fast, if finished pages are stored via Memcached the loading time can be reduced even further. The implementation is simple. This post is inspired by a tutorial on 6tech.org and on ...
Continue readingNginx with SSL and SPDY
As some may have noticed, my blog kadder.de recently runs over an encrypted connection (recognizable by the HTTPS icon in the browser bar). The main reason for this change, which unfortunately costs some time at first byte time, ...
Continue readingSpeed Index < 1000 with Nginx, ngx_pagespeed, PHP, W3TC
Nothing is more annoying than slow loading websites - but if you host WordPress yourself (in my case on a cloud server at JiffyBox) you have plenty of room for optimization. Here I present some of them. The end result beforehand: for ...
Continue readingAccelerate your website with PageSpeed service
Google has made it its goal to make the Internet faster - in other words, to improve the surfing experience for users. There are various approaches to this, one of the most important of which is PageSpeed Insights, which ...
Continue readingnginx: Expires for pictures
After I first tried to persuade nginx to only provide images with an expires header via a corresponding "location" block. Unfortunately this didn't work (result: images were not found anymore). Solution: for the global ...
Continue readingNginx: Activate GZIP
To speed up the data transfer and minimize the data transfer GZIP should be enabled for JavaScript, CSS and HTML files. By default Gzip is not enabled for all relevant mimetypes, so this should be done in nginx.conf.
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