Here we’re going to show you how to install the Internet Information Services (IIS) web server version 10.0 in Microsoft’s Windows Server 2022 operating system.
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How To Install IIS In Windows Server 2019
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on December 19, 2018
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Here we’re going to show you how to install the Internet Information Services (IIS) web server version 10.0 in Microsoft’s Windows Server 2019 operating system.
Why You Need HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security)
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on August 4, 2017
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The HTTP Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) header can be used to increase the security of a website. In this post we’ll discuss how it works, why it’s important and why you should consider using the HSTS header.
Where Is The php.ini Configuration File In CentOS?
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on April 5, 2017
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How can we find the default configuration files for the PHP packages in CentOS Linux?
By using the RPM command we can query a package to find all of its associated configuration files. Failing that we can use the find command to search the file system for these files, as we will see here.
Finally we’ll cover how we can use a phpinfo file to show us which configuration file is in use.
How To Setup A LAMP Web Server With CentOS 7 Linux
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on March 22, 2017
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With the correct packages we can quickly setup a simple CentOS 7 server to run a full LAMP stack.
This will turn our Linux system into a web server capable of serving out dynamic content from a database back end.
Where Is The Apache Configuration File In CentOS?
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on March 15, 2017
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How can we find where the default configuration files for the httpd package in CentOS are located?
By using the RPM command we can query a package to find all of its associated configuration files. Failing that we can use the find command to search the file system for these files, as we will see here.
How To Speed Up WordPress With Nginx, Caching And A CDN
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on February 13, 2017
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This WordPress based website loads fairly quickly, or at least I’d like to think so based on my testing. In this post I’m going to share some of the things that I’ve setup in order to get the fastest possible page loads from WordPress.
We’ll be covering general server configuration, Nginx web server configuration, WordPress plugin configuration, and finally use of content distribution networks.
Linux VS Windows Web Server Benchmarks
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on January 12, 2017
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Following on from my recent Linux web server benchmarks and Windows web server benchmarks, I noticed that in general IIS appeared to perform better than all Linux based web servers that I’d previously tested.
As my Linux results were completed in March last year, I’ve run some of the tests again with the most up to date versions of each web server to ensure that the best performance can be achieved.
So let’s find out how Linux and Windows based web servers compare against each other in a static workload speed test.
Windows IIS Speed Test Benchmark – 2017 Results
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on January 10, 2017
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Following on from my recent Linux web server benchmarks, I’m going to be performing the same tests on all current generations of Microsoft’s IIS web server.
Here I’ll be performing benchmarks against the below versions of the IIS web server and then comparing them against each other to get an idea of which one performs the best under a static workload.
- Windows Server 2008 R2 – IIS 7.5
- Windows Server 2012 – IIS 8.0
- Windows Server 2012 R2 – IIS 8.5
- Windows Server 2016 – IIS 10.0
First I’ll discuss how the tests were set up and actually done before proceeding into the results.
Is Cloudflare’s Paid Pro Plan Worth It? Speed Test Results
Posted by Jarrod Farncomb
on January 4, 2017
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Cloudflare is a widely used content distribution network (CDN) which is freely available to help speed up your website by caching various contents at locations around the world.
While I have been taking advantage of the free plan on this website for a number of years I’ve often asked myself “is the Cloudflare Pro plan worth getting?”. At $20 USD per month it costs the same as the server itself. With limited resources available online, I decided to upgrade myself and find out if the pro plan made much of a practical difference to my website.
I’ve performed some basic benchmarks on a number of different file types at different file sizes on this website both on the free plan, and on the Pro plan after I upgraded in August 2016. We’ll take a look at the results and see if any of the Pro features helped speed up load times.