Optimize website images automatically
by Danila Vershinin, February 27, 2016
Automatically optimize website images with a simple bash script.
Read More...Varnish Command-Line Utilities. Tips and Tricks
by Danila Vershinin,
SSH commands for Varnish 4: log incoming requests to website, backend and many more
Read More...Magento 2 Performance Checklist
by Danila Vershinin,
Basic requirements to have excellent Magento 2 performance: PHP 7, Varnish and Percona MySQL
Read More...Magento 1.x cron jobs setup
by Danila Vershinin,
Magento cron jobs Make sure to setup Magento cron jobs properly: */2 * * * * /bin/sh /var/www/html/cron.sh cron.php -m=default */2 * * * * /bin/sh /var/www/html/cron.sh cron.php -m=always Add the lines above to the crontab of the user that is running your Magento site. It is important to run Magento cron jobs via cron.sh […]
Read More...Remove query parameters in Nginx
by Danila Vershinin,
Sometimes you want to make Nginx ignore a parameter passed in page request. Here is a short snippet to do that: if ($query_string ~ “^(.*)gclid=(.*)$”) { rewrite ^(.*)$ $uri? permanent; } This comes useful in case you run a Magento store with some SEO plugins that redirect to base URL of every page, but want […]
Read More...Solved: Varnish 4 “Internal Server Error 500”
by Danila Vershinin,
Why Varnish returns “Internal Server Error 500” Once you done writing your VCL for Varnish 4, you may not be aware that it silently fails with 500 Internal Server Error for some requests. Most likely, the reason is client workspace overflow. When you run varnishlog and watch for requests, you will see: “LostHeader” and “workspace_client […]
Read More...Generate CSR for SSL certificates FAST
by Danila Vershinin, January 13, 2016
This handy Bash script will help you to quickly create Certificate Signing Requests for your SSL certificates
Read More...Varnish static files stream
by Danila Vershinin, November 19, 2015
Caching large static files in Varnish is not efficient for storage. Let’s use streaming in Varnish 4!
Read More...How to configure swap file on CentOS, Ubuntu and other Linux OS
by Danila Vershinin, October 17, 2015
When physical RAM is not enough for the system to handle its routines, Swap comes to the rescue. Let’s find out how to configure swap file on a CentOS VPS.
Read More...Varnish: do we have to cache static files?
by Danila Vershinin, October 14, 2015
Varnish is a great caching solution to speed up any website
But does it need to cache static files which are already fast to deliver?
