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How to install Nginx on Fedora?
Nginx is an open-source web server (free HTTP Server software), in addition to its HTTP Server capabilities, it can also function as a Proxy Server for email (IMAP, POP3, and SMTP) and a Reverse Proxy…
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Optimize NGINX for High-Traffic Websites
Nginx is the most famous and widely used web server application for websites today. For static websites, Nginx is no less than a boon, while for dynamic websites it serves the need of a most…
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What is Time to First Byte (TTFB)?
Time To First Byte, TTFB, is a measurement used to indicate the responsiveness of the web servers and resources. In the web development and hosting industry, time to the first byte is used to define…
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How To Reduce Initial Server Response Time?
When you test a website or a webpage on the website benchmarking tools like — PageSpeed, GTmetrix, Pingdom, or WebPageTest; you might have encountered a red signal that says to reduce initial server response time.…
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What is shared hosting?
To host a project or website online we make use of a web hosting service and the beginning would be a shared hosting, which is easy to begin with and inexpensive for an under developing…
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How To Reduce Server Response Times?
While optimizing a website for a greater performance we need to improve its foundation, which is server response time or time to first byte (TTFB). In an earlier article we learned about the TTFB, and…
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What does headless mean?
Headless simply means without head, but in technical term headless often referred to as a system that works without any graphical user interface (in short GUI). For example, servers in the data centers are headless,…
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How To Redirect 404 to the Homepage in Nginx?
When a requested URL is not available or not found, it’s advisable to redirect them to another URL or to a homepage that’s user-friendly. Nginx web server allows us to redirect off such 404 error…
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How to fix “Specify a Vary: Accept-Encoding Header” warning?
While optimizing your website for website performance using tools (ex. GTmetrix), you’ll run into a “specify a vary: accept-encoding header” warning. What exactly does this mean? How can we fix this? In this tutorial, we’ll…
Web Servers
A web server is a computer that runs websites and online applications.