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Replacing Apache with NGINX and HTSCANNER

WHY?

We run a lot of wordpress sites, and the one thing that seems impossible to manage is the bloat we get from plugin usage and incorrectly sized images uploaded by site administrators.  Often a site can get to the point where it takes 30 seconds plus to load. Needless to say, we then get complaints about the slowness of the site.

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Apache Redirect vs Rewrite

How to Redirect

Nicki mentioned redirects this morning and that started me thinking (light strains of banjo). There are many ways to change the destination of a URL to another URL depending on language and access to the web server. Let’s look at the implications of some of these methods. [Read more →]