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How to Scale Django: Beyond the Basics — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Scale Django: Beyond the Basics

As a web app grows in popularity and number of users, the need to scale performance will continue to be a point of focus for its developer(s). In this tutorial, we will go over a few higher-level strategies for scaling apps built on Django, going beyond the initial scaling tips we’ve already covered.

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Introduction to Web Servers — step-by-step Web Servers tutorial on Progressive Robot

Introduction to Web Servers

A web server’s primary role is to serve web pages for a website. They act as an intermediary between the backend and the frontend, serving up resources like HTML and CSS files to JSON data, all generated dynamically on the fly or served statically. It uses protocols such as HTTP or HTTPS in a request-and-response format, allowing communication between backend machines and a requesting client’s web browser.

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How To Upgrade to PHP 7 on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Upgrade to PHP 7 on Ubuntu 14.04

PHP 7.0 was released on December 3, 2015. It promises substantial speed improvements over previous versions of the language, along with new features like scalar type hinting. This guide explains how to quickly upgrade a PHP 5.x installation on an Ubuntu 14.04 system with Apache or Nginx, using community-provided packages.

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How To Create an SSL Certificate on Apache for CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create an SSL Certificate on Apache for CentOS 7

SSL is a web protocol used to encrypt a site’s information and create a more secure connection. The certificate system also assists users in verifying the identity of the sites that they are connecting with. In this guide, we will show you how to set up a self-signed SSL certificate for use with an Apache web server on a CentOS 7 VPS.

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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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