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Behold, the benefits of virtualization!
I spent most of the evening preparing to move a few websites. I decided to do some benchmarking just to see what sort of improvement I was getting from the new server setup. Although the old server didn't feel slow when browsing sites, the results …
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While setting up a new blog for an old site the other day, I ran into a situation where the main page would work, but individual posts would result in a 404 (page not found) error. Checking the error log revealed that Apache could not find the file it was …
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One of the suggestions for improving the performance of your website is to properly set the Expire and Cache-Control headers of the HTTP response for images. Since images rarely change, the Expire time should be set far in the future. This ensures that web browsers will attempt to retrieve the …
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If you're using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or one of it's variants (CentOS,
etc.), you may have noticed that using a non-standard document root for your
Apache-based web site results in a DocumentRoot does not exist warning if
the directory exists. The most likely cause of this problem is …
