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Simple Steps to Find Out and Decrease Website Loading Time and Improve Conversions
Published on 6 Aug, 2011 at 16:56 in SEO | | No Comments
Most people give any site only 2 seconds to load. A few seconds more and you are at the risk of losing potential customers and readers. Your site may be quick, but not quick enough or it might just be miserably slow. This problem is a serious one and needs to be solved, making your
How To Increase size of /var/tmp and /tmp in CentOS
Published on 26 Jul, 2011 at 16:19 in Server Optimization | | No Comments
I was frequently getting an error message that the /var/tmp directory in one of my cPanel CentOS 5.5 server is full and I need to delete some data. A cronjob is already there in crontab to cleanup the temporary data periodically, but I was still getting that error. I looked at the error log and
WordPress Server Load Plugin
Published on 23 Jun, 2011 at 19:08 in Wordpress Plugins | | No Comments
I noticed that my shared server is not responding like it should and the speed too went down. Since I don’t have the root access to my serer, I can not SSH and get the load averages details, but I was pretty sure the problem is due to the overload of the server. That is
Protect Your Images with .htaccess Hotlink Protection
Published on 24 Apr, 2011 at 16:16 in Server Optimization | | 11 Comments
One of my clients complained that someone is stealing his bandwidth and asked me if I can do something to stop that. It took me only fifteen minutes to fix the problem. The way someone can literally steal your bandwidth is hot linking images or other downloadable items form your website. When someone hotlink something
How to Install Advanced Policy Firewall (APF)
Published on 23 Nov, 2010 at 23:53 in Server Optimization | | 1 Comment
APF or Advanced Policy Firewall is an iptables (netfilter) based firewall system for Apache Servers running on Linux OS. It’s easy to install and configure if you have root access to your server. It’s a feature rich yet free firewall system available for Linux servers and the best part is you can configure it to
