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In today's fast-paced digital landscape, website performance is paramount. Users demand speedy loading times, and search engines reward fast-loading websites with higher rankings. As a web server, Nginx is renowned for its performance and scalability, but to further enhance your web application's efficiency, it's vital to utilize techniques like Gzip …
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If you have ever used any tool to optimize a web page, you know that compressing
the return traffic to the client is a
big win. In nginx, this is done with
the gzip module. The
easiest thing to do is add gzip on; to the http stanza in your …
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I recently ran into an issue on a Wordpress site running behind an nginx web
server. The site was frequently being attacked by a botnet hitting /xmlrpc.php
so rapidly, it would eventually force the FastCGI processes behind nginx to
consume all available CPU. Naturally, this would cause all legitimate …
