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Recursively Optimize PNG Files
Images are often one of the most overlooked things when publishing content inside a website. Editors upload images freely and most of them don’t rely on using the correct image format, or even worse, they don’t bother to optimize the image at all. However, the Linux terminal offers a great way to recursively optimize PNG files. Install OptiPNG and PNGCrush…
Read More »How can I Disable CPU Frecuency Scaling?
As a web performance addict, I’m always looking for ways to improve system performance and speed web applications. And today I will share with you the magic of CPU frecuency scaling, and a practical how to guide to disable CPU frecuency scaling to run your system at full CPU speed. Before getting into how to disable CPU frecuency scaling,…
Read More »301 Redirect: all HTTP requests to HTTPS
I’m trying to redirect all insecure HTTP based requests on my site (http://www.example.com) to HTTPS (https://www.example.com). My page uses PHP, how can I do this redirect usig .htaccess with Apache web server? That was the question made by one customer earlier this week. First things first: the redirection from HTTP to HTTPS is done at web server level, altough…
Read More »How to install LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin on WHM Servers Step by Step
LiteSpeed is a fantastic alternative to Apache and Nginx web servers. And the best, is that it is 100% compatible with cPanel and it also supports .htaccess rewrite rules. Today you will learn the quick and easy way to install LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin and to tweak its performance and security settings. LiteSpeed Web Server, also known as LSWS, is a high performance…
Read More »Install / Upgrade to PHP 7.1 on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 using Remi RPM Repo
Days ago I had to upgrade to PHP 7.1 on the nixcp.com server, it was a major upgrade since I was running PHP 5.6.x. This was on the top of my todo list after I read that PHP 7.1 was 20% faster than PHP 7.0 (and we all know PHP 7.0 is around twice as fast as PHP…
Read More »Let’s Encrypt: The client lacks sufficient authorization :: Invalid response
Recently I started using Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates for my site cPanelTips.com. Let’s face it, Let’s Encrypt has changed the way we install SSL certificates. The old days when you had to fill in your company and personal details, generate the CSR code, and then submit to the SSL registrar, to finally wait for the CRT code ware…
Read More »Top 4 Nginx Modules for cPanel and WHM
As we all know, cPanel doesn’t fully support Nginx yet, it will be ready in the future as it is one of the most requested features from their users. However, in the meantime, if you want to have Nginx on cPanel you will have to do it using 3rd party modules. Nginx is almost 2x fast as Apache while…
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