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How to boost WordPress Performance with Redis.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, website performance is crucial. Slow loading times can lead to a poor user experience and even impact your search engine rankings. Thankfully, there are powerful caching solutions available to speed up your WordPress site. One such solution is Redis Object Cache, a plugin that leverages the speed and efficiency of…

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Install latest version of Redis on Ubuntu 22.04.

Redis is a popular open-source in-memory data structure storage that is often used as a caching layer for Web applications. In the context of PHP MySQL applications, such as WordPress, Redis can be used as an object cache to speed up application performance. Object caching is a technique that involves storing the results of expensive…

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Reset PowerDNS MySQL Master Slave DNS Replication.

Although PowerDNS in native mode with a MySQL backend is usually very stable and hardly causes any problems, occasionally master slave replication between MySQL servers fails. This is usually a result of a failure in the network connection between the master and slave server, which in our case is usually through a SSH tunnel (autossh)….

Nginx: [warn] protocol options redefined

If you get an error message “nginx: [warn] protocol options redefined” after upgrading Nginx to the latest stable version 1.24, you can easily fix it by adding “http2” to the 443 “Listen” directive in the default.conf file. vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf server { listen 80 default_server; listen [::]:80 default_server; listen 443 default_server http2 ssl; listen [::]:443 default_server…

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Generate SSL certificates with acme.sh on Nginx.

In this article, we will see how to install and configure “acme.sh” to generate SSL certificates for domains and how to implement it with Nginx to secure the connection to corresponding websites hosted on our web server via “HTTPS”. To optimize the security of connections to the web server and comply with all applicable guidelines,…

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Generate TLSA Record from the command line for DANE and DNSSEC.

If DNSEC is enabled for your domain, you should also create a TSLA record to implement DANE (DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities) to properly authenticate your domain. Although online tools exist to generate a TSLA record, you can also do it from the command line on the server where the SSL certificate is stored. In…

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Host Multiple Domains with Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04.

In a previous article, we showed you how to set up a full LEMP stack on Ubuntu 22.04 with the latest stable version of Nginx, MariaDB and PHP, which will serve as the foundation for a reliable and performance-focused hosting platform. Nginx is a fast, lightweight and powerful web server that can also be used…

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How to install a LEMP stack on Ubuntu 22.04.

If you’re looking to host your own open source applications, setting up a LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP) web stack is one of the best choices out there, if not the best. With the latest versions of Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP 8.2, you’ll have a fast and reliable platform for running a wide range of…