Install Squid & Apache on 1 Server
Let's say your site is becoming a big success and as a result it's becoming slower and slower. There are several things you do without buying additional hardware:
Use PEAR With open_basedir and safe_mode Restrictions
You want your website to be as safe as possible. So you'll typically want Open Basedir and Safe Mode to be on. When you're in a shared hosting environment, you'll find that any server administrator with a good sense of...
What's the Deal With php_value, php_admin_flag, Etc
I ran accross php value, php flag, php admin value and php admin flag in a couple of .htaccess files, and I've used them sometimes as well by just pasting an example, but I've never really understood why there was...
Change the Default Editor
Ever wanted to change the crontab of a server, but got an editor on screen that you're totally unfamiliar with? There are a lot of causes for this annoyance, but one is that somebody recently installed or used midnight commander...
Cat a File, Without the Comments
I recently had to install a couple of squid servers to act as reverse proxies for a webcluster. You can teach the squid server to stand in between in the end users and the webservers, and to store all the...