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PHP APC vs eAccelerator vs XCache Benchmarking

PHP APC vs eAccelerator vs XCache Benchmarking

From my previous post i wrote about how to install APC and XCache for caching system for PHP 5. Now i would like to review which one is have best performance between APC, eAccelerator and XCache. Since... [More...]

[HowTo] Install XCache For PHP5 In CentOS

[HowTo] Install XCache For PHP5 In CentOS

Instead using Alternative PHP cache (APC), we can use PHP XCache for PHP caching system. XCache is an open-source opcode cacher, to accelerates PHP performance on servers. It optimize performance by removing... [More...]

Alternative PHP Cache (APC) Not Compatible With Zend Optimizer

Alternative PHP Cache (APC) Not Compatible With Zend Optimizer

This problem happen in my VPS after i install Alternative PHP cache (APC). And also i already have Zend optimizer installed on the same VPS. After i installed APC, my WordPress blog show strange behavior.... [More...]

[HowTo] Install Alternative PHP Cache (APC)

[HowTo] Install Alternative PHP Cache (APC)

The Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is a free and open opcode cache for PHP. Its goal is to provide a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code. And you can boost your... [More...]

Install And Configure Nginx, PHP, MySQL On Ubuntu

Install And Configure Nginx, PHP, MySQL On Ubuntu

Nginx is simple webserver yet powerful. It is widely know for stable webserver. If it is well configured, nginx rarely have spike in the cpu load and have low memory consumption. Nginx is known for its... [More...]

Solve Nginx Error 413: Request Entity Too Large

Solve Nginx Error 413: Request Entity Too Large

Nginx default maximum accepted body size of client request, or maximum file size that you can upload to the server which have Nginx is 1M. And when i try to upload more than 1M i got Nginx error 403: Request... [More...]

504 Gateway Timeout With Nginx And Apache

504 Gateway Timeout With Nginx And Apache

Well these couple days i spent a lot of my time debugging the nginx 504 gateway timeout error. As far as my understanding this error 504 caused by proxy timeout, or nginx wait too long for apche response.... [More...]

Upgrade Nginx Without Downtime

Upgrade Nginx Without Downtime

It’s been more than 2 months now i have been using Nginx (read: Engine X) as reverse proxy server with Apache to server static files such as javascripts, css, images, etc. You can refer to my previous... [More...]

Hardening Your Server Security With ConfigServer Security & Firewall

Hardening Your Server Security With ConfigServer Security & Firewall

Talking about server side security will come down to firewall or filter connections from and to your server. Close unnecessary ports, block unwanted connection and blacklist spammers are the things that... [More...]

Install nginx as Reverse Proxy With Apache

Install nginx as Reverse Proxy With Apache

Install nginx as reverse proxy is one way to improve your sever performance and so your website performance too. This is the serial post of “Improve Your Server Performance With Nginx” from my previous... [More...]

Solve FTP Passive Mode Issue In WHM/Cpanel With CSF

Solve FTP Passive Mode Issue In WHM/Cpanel With CSF

Installing a Firewall (eg: Config Security Firewall/CSF) is one step to hardening security of your webserver. But this come with an issue that CSF block PureFTPd/ProFTPd server, so your FTP client cannot... [More...]

List Of Spam Bot You should Block

List Of Spam Bot You should Block

There are lots of spam bot out there. Not just a spam bot, scrape box always come to your site and scraping your content plus wasting your bandwidth. I hate spam and scrape bot, and i bet you do too. We... [More...]

Block Unwanted Visitors To Your Website With .htaccess

Block Unwanted Visitors To Your Website With .htaccess

Unwanted visitor won’t bring you any good or benefit. Unwanted visitor may harm your website or server and wasting your money indirectly. And since they don’t bring you any benefit and may... [More...]

Migrating Your Website To New Server Without Down Time

Migrating Your Website To New Server Without Down Time

Migrating your site to new server need to repoint your domain nameserver to new server. DNS propagating need maximum 48 hours to update. So when you visit your site in old server for the last 48 hours... [More...]

How To Make Your VPS Domain As Nameserver

How To Make Your VPS Domain As Nameserver

After you setup WHM on your VPS, now your next step is to setup your domain domain as the nameserver host. To setup your domain as a nameserver host, you need to edit your domain configuration in your... [More...]