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Archive for April, 2010

Creating “jeans effect” background on your website

April 30th, 2010 1 comment

Greeting everyone,

Today I’ll show you how to make little graphic design on your website, using a background mosaic that will look like jean. In another word, pretty cool :p

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Monitoring your website for free

April 24th, 2010 2 comments

Monitoring your website is a common thing webmaster and admin sys need to do everyday.

It’s true it exists many software or services available on the Internet, for cheap price, but if you could find the same service for free, why would you pay ?

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Categories: Free, Performance, Web Tags: , ,

How to secure your webserver against SYN flooding and DoS attack

April 24th, 2010 7 comments

Hello,

It has become popular nowdays to receive incoming attack from foreign server, with the only goal to discard all access / connections to your server. Those attack are generally call “DoS” or “Denial of Service” attack.

Today, I’ll give you a few tricks to reduce impact of such impact on your linux server. Keep in mind that there are no solutions to discard those types of attack, and the tricks I give you today only reduce impact it can have on your server…

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Using iptables to secure your webserver

April 22nd, 2010 1 comment

Greeting everyone,

Today, I’ll show you how you can protect your Linux web server freely and easily using iptables (linux software firewall)

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Categories: Linux, Security Tags: , , ,

Rewriting your URLs using .htaccess

April 18th, 2010 6 comments

Hi,

Today, I’ll talk quickly about .htacess file, and how you can use it to rewrite your URL.

For example, when someone call linux.edu, they will be automatically redirected on www.linux.edu. This could improve your position on various search engine, like Google (SEO).

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Categories: Apache, Web Tags: , , ,

Setting up PHP 5.3 with a Debian Lenny

April 16th, 2010 3 comments

Greeting people !

Today I’ll show you how it’s simple to setup PHP 5.3 on a Debian Lenny.

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Categories: Debian, Linux, MySQL, PHP Tags: , ,

Stressing your web application using NeoLoad

April 13th, 2010 2 comments

Greeting everyone,

Today I’ll write an article about NeoLoad, a commercial product for stressing web application and many more…

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Categories: Performance, Web Tags: , , ,

Testing your knowledge on linux using Red Hat Training Pre-assessment Questionnaires

April 12th, 2010 No comments

Greeting everyone,

As you all seem concern about Linux, this is a little exercise that I made yesterday, because I was wondering if I could pass my RHCE exams (which cost at least 2600 euros for a week).

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Categories: Linux, Redhat, RHCE, Training Tags: , , ,

Benchmarking web application using cache

April 11th, 2010 2 comments

Hi,

Yesterday, we saw how important it was to use cache on your web application.But if you are like me, you have faced many different ways or applications for making cache.

Today, I will show you different type of cache and how to benchmark them.

PS: keep in mind those result are experimental, and are true for my web application. This doesn’t mean your web will have the same benchmark attitude.
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Categories: Linux, Performance, PHP, Web Tags: ,

Using cache to improve performance on web application

April 10th, 2010 No comments

Welcome back everyone,

Today, I will talk about the primary reasons about using cache on your web application.

Nowdays, website has become more and more complex, and therefore, application takes more time for computing webpage.

It is a fact that every page on a site should take less than a second to be loaded.

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Categories: Performance, Web Tags: , ,