If you run a small private blog like this one and have a fast enough internet connection (especially the upload is important), you can consider hosting it directly at home. This has some advantages, ...
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Gadgets, Pagespeed, Nginx, Raspi
If you run a small private blog like this one and have a fast enough internet connection (especially the upload is important), you can consider hosting it directly at home. This has some advantages, ...
Continue readingIf you want to further optimize the execution speed of PHP scripts, sooner or later you will stumble upon HHVM - a just-in-time compiler for PHP. HHVM can be easily installed via the Debian package management. Once that is done, it can be installed in the ...
Continue readingIf you want WordPress to be really fast, you won't get anywhere with common caching plugins after a certain point. Nginx with HTTP2 helps. Since version 1.9.5 the open source version of Nginx also supports the HTTP/2 protocol directly - ...
Continue readingIf you use WordPress with mod_pagespeed or ngx_pagespeed and use the combine_css filter, you will notice that nothing happens. What to do? The reason for the problems: The pagespeed module does not consider CSS embeddings that have different IDs. ...
Continue readingNginx 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 readingTo 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.
Continue readingnginx is a fast web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy or for streaming Flash videos. Originally developed for the requirements of a Russian search engine, more and more web projects also rely on nginx. Unlike ...
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