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We’ll wrangle S3 into a pseudo-webserver yet!

Aiming for low latency: Notes I made while setting up an Anycast + Geolocation + Latency Based Routing configuration for worldwide traffic.

One of the (few) benefits of OpenVZ is that your instances reboot very fast which can make for a quick workflow… unless of course reboots hang your terminal window.

Making websites load lickety-split! Combining what I’ve learned with a Geo DNS setup and an Anycast setup into a comparison.

Setting up BGP Anycast on Vultr with some leased address space!

Looking at 2 of the lowest-cost contenders for Geo DNS. Which should you choose? I spent the money and spent the hours of set-up time so you don’t have to!

The workarounds to get nginx running over IPv6 on a fresh install changed a little in Ubuntu 18.04.

Avoiding unpredictable behavior when trying to mount a networked drive.

Looking at a dedicated ARM server. They can handle phones and tablets, but can they handle… a website!?

Want an email when a file is uploaded to S3 with some basic human-readable details? Amazon’s got you covered. Just use S3 *and* Lambda *and* SNS. Oh and you’ll probably need to step into IAM and CloudWatch too. Amazon: There’s nothing we can’t split across 5 separate services.

Quick note for my own reference.

I compared the performance of PHPNG to the default PHP 5.5.9 that comes with Ubuntu 14.04LTS. The results were impressive.

I decided to give WebP a shot on a Ubuntu 14.04LTS VPS running nginx. Here’s the process I followed, and the results!

Trying to find a WordPress lightbox that didn’t require JQuery was nothing short of a nightmare. So I put together my own!

Nginx has a great directive called “gzip_static” that will serve pre-gzipped content. Here’s how I set up a VPS to generate pre-gzipped versions automatically.

I ran some quick speed tests against 4 common DNS providers from 12 locations, and put together the results.

CDN’s are pricey, but with a little work, you can set up a few cheap VPS’s as edge caches and roll your own! I’ve gone over one possible implementation here.

A look at DISQUS and WordPress from a speed perspective – if you’re looking for fast page load times, you might be surprised at the results.

Introducing the new and exciting WordPress plugin designed to strip away those HTTP or HTTPS-specific links on your blog that are causing you problems! Ok, so it’s not that exciting. But it’s pretty simple and when it doesn’t explode your site, it works.   What it does… 1) The “remove protocol” plugin looks at your …

There are many possible causes of 502 errors in Nginx and I look at one of them. If you recently set it up to proxy over HTTPS, the proxy_pass directive probably contains the issue.