Everyone enjoys responsive websites and being that I host a few, look for ways to improve their speed. Previously, I was interested in, HTTP, HTTPS, and HTTP/WAF, I now primarily focus on HTTPS. Browsers and third-party online services may be used in order to benchmark page performance but began …
This post evaluates a few methods to benchmark name servers that provide resolution of your websites domain name to its respective IP address. While DNS resolution for you domain is a small piece of the process for a user to retrieve a page, it is still important to provide the …
I recently enabled HTTPS on this site and wanted to use a 301 redirect in order to correctly re-route guests from HTTP to HTTPS (HTTP to SSL/TLS). I originally performed all of my rewrites in Apache which acts as my backend. While Apache handled the typical non-www to www …
This site previously used WordPress as a CMS platform. Quite a bit of time was spent tuning in order to get page load times that were consistently less then 500ms although usually closer to 200 to 300ms. The WordPress site was able to burst to around to 2000 users per …
In httpd.conf: Alias /wiki/index.php /home/rsreese/richardsreese/htdocs/w/index.php Alias /wiki /home/rsreese/richardsreese/htdocs/w/index.php In Localsetting.php: $wgScriptPath = "/w"; $wgScript = "$wgScriptPath/index.php"; $wgRedirectScript = "$wgScriptPath/redirect.php"; # For more information on customizing the URLs please see: # http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki …