Appwrite does more than Google Firebase can do and Appwrite is open source. That means you can run Appwrite on your server without any usage restrictions. Appwrite is a self-hosted backend as a service packaged as a set of micro-services which can run inside a container. It helps to avoid writing backend code and provides you with a better starting point for your project and a better developer … [Read more...]
Dynamic WebP Image Delivery in WordPress with Bunny CDN
Loading the WordPress post images in WebP format is of great importance today since WebP format reduces the size and Google wants that we use WebP format. Even if the gain in terms of size reduction is not significant, it is probably a good idea to solve the "issues" pointed out as errors in PageSpeed Insights. Various whimsical rules and instructions imposed by Google do not stay with time. … [Read more...]
Advantages and Disadvantages of Ubuntu Server Distribution
There is a lot of difference between a Server OS and Desktop OS. Only a few Linux server distributions are commonly used for web hosting and app hosting which include Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, REHL, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and openSUSE. Ubuntu is a Debian derivative server distribution but Ubuntu is more popular than Debian. Ubuntu is composed mostly of free and open-source software but has … [Read more...]
Easily Set Up Email with SMTP on Ubuntu Server
It is very easy to use msmtp package, configure a dedicated email account for the server and send email alerts from the server or the web application, such as WordPress. However, for making web applications such as WordPress work, you need to perform a few extra steps which we have not described in this article. To follow this guide, you need a dedicated email account for this purpose. If you … [Read more...]
How To Install Apache NiFi On Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
This is an updated guide on installation of Apache NiFi. Version 1.21.0 is the latest. It was built by NSA to automate the flow of data between their systems. Nifi is a Java based project and executes within a JVM. The biggest advantage is that, it has a web based interface to create, monitor and control data flow. You'll get a good documentation on limits … [Read more...]
Nginx vs Apache – Which is the Best Webserver for WordPress?
If you are a single person handling few WordPress sites hosted on unmanaged servers, then Apache is the robust option for you. You can always use Nginx on a small cloud server to reverse proxy the Apache server (in the way we have described in this guide). The question is not whether Nginx or Apache is better than the other. The question is about use case, documentations, easy to add new features … [Read more...]
GeoDNS vs Anycast for Websites
Normally we set up our WordPress sites for the unicast system. Our servers bear one IP, and DNS also have one primary name server IP. The setup is simple and works great when the users or visitors are within 200 km of the datacenter. Hosting a website on a datacenter on Texus and accessing it from Kolkata adds a huge latency simply because the data have to travel so long path. Although it is … [Read more...]
How to Install Apache PageSpeed For WebP Conversion
Google PageSpeed module, now Apache PageSpeed module works from the server side to perform a lot of work easier avoiding WordPress plugins or PHP snippets. The good thing is that it is free and offers a ton of features. The bad thing about the Apache PageSpeed module is that the result is inconsistent and sometimes hurt the page loading speed. It does not hurt to test this module's support to … [Read more...]
How to Fix : Config variable ${APACHE_RUN_DIR} is not defined
This particular error bears the error code AH00111 which comes from line number 1227 of the /server/core.c file which reads case USE_CANONICAL_NAME_UNSET:. The comment written about USE_CANONICAL_NAME says - "With UseCanonicalName on (and in all versions before 1.3) Apache will use the hostname and port specified in the ServerName directive to construct a canonical name for the server. (If no port … [Read more...]
Fix : PHP-FPM Consuming Too Much RAM (Apache, MPM Event)
If you have followed someone's guide like we have published How to Install Apache MPM Event and PHP-FPM on Ubuntu Server then in certain cases (depending on your setup) your server may consume near 100% RAM. This article discusses how to find the faulty settings for your setup and fix them to bring it back to 50% RAM consumption so that the server does not trigger OOM Killer (that means Apache or … [Read more...]
What Are the Advantages of Dedicated Server Over Cloud Server (for WordPress)
This article is complimentary to the previously published article What Are the Advantages of Cloud Server Over Dedicated Server for WordPress. Even the $100/month dedicated servers offer certain advantages over cloud server for the purpose of hosting WordPress. While the list of reasons why cloud servers are superior to running WordPress is endless, it is true that on a dedicated server, you are … [Read more...]