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How To Create and Serve WebP Images to Speed Up Your Website — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create and Serve WebP Images to Speed Up Your Website

WebP is an open image format developed by Google in 2010 based on the VP8 video format that supports both lossy and lossless image compression. In this tutorial, you will use the command-line tool `cwebp` to convert images to WebP format, creating scripts that will watch and convert images in a specific directory. Finally, you’ll explore two ways to serve WebP images to your visitors.

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How To Customize and Recompile Your Kernel on FreeBSD 10.1 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Customize and Recompile Your Kernel on FreeBSD 10.1

The FreeBSD operating system utilizes the GENERIC kernel by default. This is a default configuration used to support a large variety of hardware out of the box. However, there are many different reasons for compiling a custom kernel, which include security, enhanced functionality, or better performance.

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How To Enable SFTP Without Shell Access on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Enable SFTP Without Shell Access on Ubuntu 18.04

In a standard configuration, the SSH server grants file transfer access and terminal shell access to all users with an account on the system. In this tutorial, we’ll set up the SSH daemon to limit SFTP access to one directory with no SSH access allowed on per user basis on an Ubuntu 18.04 server.

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