Is your Apache web server (with mod_php or mod_perl) based application server suffering from memory outages or just freezing? Do you find it hard to keep up with millions of requests per hour? Then, read on. Find out why this happens and how Nginx can dramatically reduce the load on your application server with almost no change in your application code and only a few minor changes in your website templates.

Continue reading “Nginx with Apache” »

Here goes a famous phrase which exists in about 7 million pages according to Google.

“Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!”

This is a great example to support the fact that free things in this world are often undervalued. Even though 7 millions is quite a small ratio (7%) when compared to 100 millions of possible WordPress installations (only those where WP is credited), it’s still not a small number. From this example alone, one can predict the growing number of parking only websites being made today. Domain names are cheap ($10/year), Linux based web hosting is cheap ($5-10/month), and there exist free CMS and blogging platforms (WordPress, Drupal and Joomla to mention only a few) that even a elementary school kid can kick off a website without much help.

Continue reading “Hello world!” »