We have lot of Content Management Systems like WordPress, Joomla, Magento. Have you thought, which performs better on Cloud Platform? Rackspace Support did a comparison a year back. But measuring performance from the point of server performance is not always a simple task. One need to assess different aspects in the field of technical requirements required by a CMS as part of the performance and … [Read more...]

Chrome, Firefox, Safari will at least check a website in the list of HSTS Preloading. Here is the right Nginx configuration for HSTS preload. We have talked about What is HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) Preload List in the previously published article. Here is the working Nginx Configuration for HSTS Preload Test Passing.   Nginx Configuration for HSTS Preload : Before We … [Read more...]

Those who use cloud services safety is a very important aspect to manage and also Security and Firewall are major concerns to choose a Cloud platform. Previously we published a good number of articles on Cloud Security, indeed Security in the Cloud is the Next Real Business. The resistance in the cloud to implement security and privacy is that, it slows the spread. Why is the question that … [Read more...]

Named Data Networking is a Future Internet Architecture supportive towards next generation works on Cloud Computing and Internet of Things (IoT). Named Data Networking seems to be intended to replace the current TCP IP Network to ensure the future evolution of the Web. In the future we possibly can say good-bye to server and IP addresses. This is the promise that makes the Named Data Networking … [Read more...]

What is that YAML File which we use in most of the Cloud Automation Tools like in OpenStack Heat Templates? YAML is a data serialization format. As we can read it, it is human readable. We talked a huge about Cloud Automation via various articles - Relationship of Cloud Automation and Abstraction, Automation in the Cloud, not exactly we want to distract the readers from the current title, but just … [Read more...]

Recent announcements of Mountain View on Google Ranking HTTPS and have raised questions. It was Google who was said to be inside the PRISM. In the previous article, we have described about Google Ranking and HTTPS in details. HTTPS will prove to be a decisive factor for ranking, at the same time, quality of security of the server. But, it is fact that it was also Google who was in the list of … [Read more...]

There are some factors which gave a significant boost to the evolution of the cloud computing and its spread in recent years. These factors are fundamentally linked to the satisfaction of certain needs particularly needed by the companies - increase the pace and speed work; maximum timeliness to follow for the evolution of the real-time changes in the markets and to remain competitive - feature … [Read more...]

Here with this website we are showing you settings with XCache, W3 Total Cache WordPress on a somewhat high end setup on Rackspace Cloud Server. Frederick Townes is somewhat known person to us, it is obvious that we might criticize a plugin or their business model, but actually he is a good person. Many years ago, it was Frederick Townes who mentioned us on W3TC's other notes (2012) … [Read more...]

Here are all the needed commands to install Piwik on nginx on Ubuntu 14.04 on Rackspace Cloud Server with GeoIP PECL and GeoIP PHP modules. We are using a separate MySQL Server Instance (1 GB PVHVM, Ubuntu 14.04) with InnoDB Engine and a Web Server (2 GB PVHVM, Ubuntu 14.04) running Nginx. It is not abnormal forget own father's name to rightly configure! However, we have reproduced the step by … [Read more...]

HTML5 DOM Preloading on Cloud Architecture is a Nice, Modern Method Used Since 2008. Here is about HTML5 Preloading for Document Object Model (DOM). Regular readers of this website can recall about DNS Prefetch. HTML5 Vocabularies are explained here. It is the uncanny browser's team, the Internet Explorer Team thought about the lookahead downloader, now DOM Preloader first. DOM Preloading is now … [Read more...]

W3 Total Cache With SSL for Nginx Server, thats on Rackspace Cloud with PHP5-FPM - here are some tips to work with this complex setup keeping everything fine. It is not that easy unlike Apache2, it is not that difficult too. After SSL Grade Optimization, this part possibly is the last work for your WordPress setup. Google unlikely to penalize a good graded website with HTTPS (HTTP is fully … [Read more...]