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Supercharge your CentOS/RHEL with faster zlib libraries by Intel and Cloudflare


by Danila Vershinin, March 6, 2020

How to install Cloudflare or Intel forks of zlib as a system drop-in replacement for immense system performance improvement

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How to configure the time synchronization and timezone on CentOS/RHEL


by Danila Vershinin, March 4, 2020

When you thought you knew what the server timezone should be, think again.

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Protecting Magento 2 from SPAM registrations


by Danila Vershinin,

Fight SPAM registration in Magento 2 by fixing… Magento 2.

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CentOS/RHEL 8: How to prevent a package from upgrading?


by Danila Vershinin, March 3, 2020

CentOS/RHEL 8: How to restrict yum to install or upgrade a package to a fixed specific package version?

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How to install the ModSecurity NGINX module in CentOS/RHEL 8


by Danila Vershinin, February 20, 2020

Here’s how to easily install ModSecurity for NGINX in CentOS/RHEL 8.

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NGINX: try_files is evil too


by Danila Vershinin, February 18, 2020

The if directive in NGINX is evil. How about try_files?

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Stock CentOS kernel in OVH


by Danila Vershinin, January 28, 2020

OVH is a great dedicated hosting platform. Their kernels are not so great sometimes

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Beyond Privoxy


by Danila Vershinin, December 14, 2019

There is software that we all know and love, and more often than not, forget about it. Privoxy is one of them. It allows you to filter ads and is also a go-to solution for anonymous browsing when it is coupled with Tor. With the arrival of adblock plugins in Chrome, and the web increasingly […]

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NGINX locations: performance impact and optimizations


by Danila Vershinin, December 12, 2019

NGINX location and rewrite directives. What are the best practices?

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Configure IKEV2 (Strongswan) VPN client in CentOS/RHEL 8 (Gnome GUI)


by Danila Vershinin, December 8, 2019

How to configure a Strongswan (IKEV2) client VPN connection in CentOS/RHEL 8

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