SMART Server Management
Here’s one of those acronyms that may make you roll your eyes, but we find it a good guide to how we manage our client’s operations. We call it our…
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How Time to First Byte Impacts Web Performance
Speeding up your web site can be tough. The developers blame the system administrators, the system admins blame the code, the marketing team insists on their detailed tracking scripts be…
Ignore These Web Site Optimization Scores
So your site is slow? You search the web and find this great alternative web server or database software. You dig into the benchmarks and they show huge improvements. CPU…
How to Use Nginx to Fight DDoS Attacks
From time to time, we have a client get hit with a DDoS attack. Most of the time the attacks are simple and easily blocked, but attacks aimed at applications…
Warning: Expires Headers can Slow CDN Performance
So that CDN is not performing as well as you had hoped? The issue could be how your Apache server is configured. Incorrect headers, expires, and compression settings can impact…
How to Change FTP Passwords in Plesk
How to Change FTP and Domain Passwords in Plesk This video tutorial will show you how to update customer’s main Plesk passwords, FTP and FrontPage passwords in Plesk 9. Setting…
How To use IMAP Folders to Manage Email
Using IMAP Folders Do you find taming your inbox challenging? I know I do. On some days, I receive 50 or more emails that require reading and/or a response. To…
