Research shows that if your web pages take longer than 5 seconds to load, you lose 50% of your viewers and sales. You can speed up your wordpress blog by using a CDN to display content to users faster and more efficiently. You can distributes common files or content such as css, javascript, uploaded images, videos and much more through a CDN, which serves the content from the closest cdn edge server to the end-user. In this tutorial, I will explains how to configure Wordpress to use a CDN to distribute your common files such as css, js, user uploaded files and lighten load on Apache web server servers.

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Network administrators frequently use the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) to implement a centralized directory server. You can use LDAP to authenticate users in Apache. Two popular open source LDAP solutions are OpenLDAP and Red Hat Directory Server. According to the Apache documentation, Novell LDAP and iPlanet Directory Server are also supported. This article focuses [...]

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OpenSSL is a cryptography toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) network protocols and related cryptography standards required by them. It also includes the openssl command, which provides a rich variety of commands You can use the same command to debug problems with SSL certificates. To test the [...]

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Favorites icon (favicon) file is placed in a web server root directory. It is a page icon or associated with a particular website. For example when you visit our site you see favicon in the browser’s URL bar, next to the site’s name. Also it appears next to the site’s name in [...]

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A small how to written to assist sys admins. It offers tools and high level advice to solve slow websites problems: Oh boy it’s been an intense 4 weeks. I was pulled in to assist with troubleshooting several major failures at work with loosely related systems. Including my own. All systems are public facing, hence the [...]

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Apache?s mod_rewrite considered as one of the difficult module to configure and use. This article will lead you through rewrite rules, regular expressions, and rewrite conditions, and provide a great list of examples: Apache’s low-cost, powerful set of features make it the server of choice for organizations around the world. One of its most valuable treasures [...]

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The motto of this site is learn with pictures, not words: In Pictures tutorials began as part of a research study we conducted for the U.S. Department of Education. The goal: to make it easier for people with learning disabilities to learn computer subjects. As part of the study, we created simple, illustration-based tutorials. Everyone who tested [...]

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OpenSourceParking.com is a domain parking service that helps Free Software and Open Source. Domain parking provides a place-holder web page for an undeveloped domain name. According to netcraft: An open source initiative to reverse gains for Microsoft web server software appears to be using edited server headers to try and improve the showing of the Apache [...]

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