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Why do you need your own smart DNS proxy? Here is one reason. If you live in a country other than the US, you may find that popular media providers (like Netflix, Hulu etc.) may not serve you all the movies or TV shows in their library. This is because […]

Your Own Smart DNS Proxy

24 Mar, 2016 in Hosting / Unix tagged dns / dnsmasq / netflix / nginx by manoj

apcu — If you have run a PHP application such as a WordPress blog or a bulletin board, you really need to have a PHP accelerator (such as APC or its little brother APCu) on your server for the so called op code caching. This is one of the basic optimization techniques […]

No APCu on Your Server? Simulate It!

10 Feb, 2016 in Hosting / PHP tagged acclerator / apc / apcu / opcache / php by manoj

CDN Buster — Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a collection of geographically distributed servers that mirror and serve you static contents (images, JavaScrip/CSS files, movies etc.) to your readers much faster than your own blog server can. It speeds up your blog tremendously: It serves a large part of your website payload from […]

CDN Invalidation – Why and How

4 Feb, 2016 in Hosting / Unix / WordPress tagged cdn / invalidation / plugin / wordpress by manoj

marathon — If your web server is on a wimpy VPS (such as the one I had with Arvixe), you may need to monitor your blog to ensure that it is always up. Sure, there are such monitoring services; JetPack, for instance, that can send you an email. Then you will have […]

How to Keep Your Websites Running

9 Jan, 2016 in Hosting tagged apache / linux / nginx / wordpress. bash by manoj

biker-384178_1920 — My domains were hosted on my VPS at Arvixe for almost five years. I used to love their support, knowledge etc. But about a week ago, I migrated to InMotion VPS. The main reason for the move is the story of just one ticket at Arvixe.

Why I Moved from Arvixe to InMotion

2 Jan, 2016 in Hosting tagged arvixe / hosting / inmotion by manoj