Some time ago, I changed my setup from nginx + spawn-fcgi to nginx + apache so I could play with mod_security. Well, one of my clients got pwned by some sql injection vulnerability, so I finally got to put it in practice. In a nut shell, mod_security is an apache module that scans http(s) traffic [...]
I won’t go into too many details, I got everything I learned from google and my customisations aren’t very ground breaking. Jdub tweeted about the wordpress apc object cache being updated. So I (re)installed that. I had it installed a while ago, but a wordpress upgrade broke it. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/apc/ Everyone knows about wp-super-cache, and there’s [...]
I recently swapped over from lighty to nginx, and man, am I glad I did. I have no idea about the internals, which is faster, lighter, better, etc, but nginx is way more intuitive to configure. Which in the end means my server is set up better. That kick started my latest obsession, speeding up [...]