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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by Danila Vershinin, March 4, 2020
When you thought you knew what the server timezone should be, think again.
Read More...Protecting Magento 2 from SPAM registrations
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Fight SPAM registration in Magento 2 by fixing… Magento 2.
Read More...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?
Read More...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.
Read More...NGINX: try_files is evil too
by Danila Vershinin, February 18, 2020
The if directive in NGINX is evil. How about try_files?
Read More...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
Read More...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 […]
Read More...NGINX locations: performance impact and optimizations
by Danila Vershinin, December 12, 2019
NGINX location and rewrite directives. What are the best practices?
Read More...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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