Server Optimization

How To Add the gzip Module to Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Add the gzip Module to Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04

How fast a website will load depends on the size of all of the files that have to be downloaded by the browser. Reducing the size of files to be transmitted can make the website not only load faster, but also cheaper to those who have to pay for their bandwidth usage. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to configure Nginx installed on your Ubuntu 14.04 server to utilize `gzip` compression to reduce the size of content sent to website 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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Como instalar o Jenkins no Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Como instalar o Jenkins no Ubuntu 20.04

Quando confrontado com tarefas técnicas repetitivas, encontrar soluções de automação que funcionem pode ser uma tarefa árdua. Com o Jenkins, um servidor de automação de código aberto, você pode gerenciar eficientemente tarefas que vão desde a compilação até…

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How To Optimize Your Tomcat Installation on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Optimize Your Tomcat Installation on Ubuntu 14.04

Tomcat is a popular implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. It is released by the Apache Software Foundation under the popular Apache open source license. Its powerful features, favorable license, and great community makes it one of the best and most preferred Java servlets.

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How To Add the gzip Module to Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Add the gzip Module to Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04

How fast a website will load depends on the size of all of the files that have to be downloaded by the browser. Reducing the size of files to be transmitted can make the website not only load faster, but also cheaper to those who have to pay for their bandwidth usage. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to configure Nginx installed on your Ubuntu 16.04 server to utilize `gzip` compression to reduce the size of content sent to website visitors.

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How To Implement Distributed Tracing with Jaeger on Kubernetes — step-by-step Kubernetes tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Implement Distributed Tracing with Jaeger on Kubernetes

In this tutorial, we will deploy a very small distributed application to a Kubernetes cluster and simulate a performance lag using a sleep function in our code. To find the root cause of this issue and to trace each event, we will use Jaeger. With distributed tracing enabled, we’ll see how easy it is to observe the behavior of Services and pinpoint issues.

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Установка Jenkins в Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Установка Jenkins в Ubuntu 20.04

При наличии повторяющихся технических задач подобрать действительно работающее решение автоматизации не так просто. Сервер автоматизации Jenkins с открытым исходным кодом позволяет эффективно управлять разнообразными задачами от сборки до развертывания…

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Recommended Steps for New FreeBSD 10.1 Servers — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Recommended Steps for New FreeBSD 10.1 Servers

When setting up a new FreeBSD server, there are a number of optional steps you can take to get your server into a more production-friendly state. In this guide, we will go over some of the most common examples. We will cover how to create a firewall that denies most traffic, ensure that your server’s time zone accurately reflects its location, and set up NTP polling to keep the server’s time accurate. Finally, we will demonstrate how to add some extra swap space to your server.

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