HowTo: initial configuration for Plesk speed
Plesk speed out of the box. As a matter of fact, Plesk Onyx already offers some options to improve performance. This brief HowTo lists tipps for the initial configuration and some minor [...]
July 2019
nginx doesn’t start on reboot
There are a lot of possible issues on why nginx does not start upon reboot. Yet a more common reason is tied to systemd and NetworkManager, which is the default service to [...]
Cloudflare tuning for WordPress
Read more here: https://guides.wp-bullet.com/cloudflare-cache-wordpress-posts-and-pages-guide/
HowTo: WordPress Performance – Start
When talking about Wordpress performance, a lot of keywords come up: TTFB, latency, TTR (Time To Render), bandwidth, redis, nginx, Apache, caching, CDN, Cloudflare and much more. There are too many [...]
CentOS: No space left on device
Encountering the error message "No space left on device" hits most CentOS system administrators by surprise. There can be a myriad of reasons for this error message. In this little HowTo [...]
Secure initialization of a hosted server (1&1 example)
Preface Introduction IIn this HowTo I outline a more secure way to initialize a hosted server. Additionally a lot of effort went into writing down my decisions and reasoning on this exact [...]
October 2015
compile nginx on CentOS7.1 with google pagespeed
nginx with gcc First run with gcc to make nginx: ./configure --prefix=/usr/share/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/client_body --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/proxy --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/fastcgi --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/uwsgi --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/scgi --pid-path=/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/run/lock/subsys/nginx --user=nginx --group=nginx --with-file-aio --with-ipv6 --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_xslt_module --with-http_image_filter_module [...]