How to Build Nginx with Google Pagespeed Support

Nginx (engine-x) is an open source and high-performance HTTP server, reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server. The outstanding features of Nginx are stability, a rich feature set, simple configuration and low memory consumption. This tutorial shows how to build a Nginx .deb package for Ubuntu 16.04 from source that has Google PageSpeed module compiled in. PageSpeed is a web server module developed by Google to speed up the website response time, optimize the returned HTML and reduce the page load time....

April 22, 2017 · 3 min · Rezha Julio

Using Google URL Shortener with Your Domain! For Free!!

I sometimes feel like URL shorteners are some of the most understated tools in internet marketing, and there have been more than a few times that I wished I’d had someone share some advice on URL shorteners. For instance: What do you do with really long links? What if you want to track the results? What if the link—long and unwieldy—upstages the content? What if I am on a platform where every character count?...

March 19, 2017 · 4 min · Rezha Julio

Installing Varnish with nginx on Ubuntu 14.04

About Varnish Varnish is an HTTP accelerator and a useful tool for speeding up a server, especially during a times when there is high traffic to a site. It works by redirecting visitors to static pages whenever possible and only drawing on the server itself if there is a need for an active process. ...

April 26, 2015 · 2 min · Rezha Julio