UPDATE: Google no longer supports spdy. Instead it focuses on http/2. This blog-post is no longer up-to-date.
Today I tested nginx with Google’s spdy implementation.I already tested pagespeed separatly in a different post that showed the speed-boost gained from it. Now to add the security for you …
more ...When I initially set up my server for this blog and my small photography-website I didn’t really think about securing it against attacks. But one day I looked into the “secure”-logfile of my server and was greeted with this:
Apr 24 04:38:23 vps9533 sshd[21882]: pam_unix …Allan McRae, Pacman developer, found an interesting small tool, called Distro Picker. This tool finds the Linux-Distribution based on what you prefer as a Desktop Environment, Package Manager and other settings.
When I tried it out, it offered me my current distro: Arch Linux, so interestingly, it works really well …
more ...Today I tested the new plugin for nginx developed Google: ngx_pagespeed. It’s the equivalent for nginx to apache’s mod_pagespeed.
Just go to the github page for ngx_pagespeed and the follow the instructions there.I used the alpha-r2748-build.
Sidenote: With it I ran into a problem with the …
more ...This is my little how-to on installing and configuring Wordpress on Arch Linux with nginx+php-fpm. It is by no means the best way to do it or even complete, but it helped me get my blog out in minutes.
Assuming your already installed MySQL(or MariaDB), nginx via pacman …
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