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gzip and deflate compression support by web browsers

April 30, 2012
George Notaras
Servers No Comments

There are several ways to improve the performance of a web site. One of them is HTTP compression. Moreover, compressing the web server responses can save tons of bandwidth without adding any significant amount of extra CPU load on the server. Two of the most common compression algorithms used in HTTP are gzip and deflate.…

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Mobile version of G-Loaded

April 29, 2012
George Notaras
Announcements No Comments

I tested the website using the default browser of a smartphone and I realized that it is needed to improve the theme to make the content easier to read on mobile devices. If you think such a task is easy, you’re way outline! From a quick web search I noticed that there are many things…

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Lessons learned from a recent OS upgrade

April 28, 2012
George Notaras
Editorial 3 Comments

From the time I had set up my first server at home over a decade ago, I’ve performed numerous operating system upgrades. Usually, it used to take me several hours – if not days – to complete each upgrade and make sure that everything would work as expected. During all these years, I’ve been working…

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Limit the number of stored revisions per post in WordPress

April 28, 2012
George Notaras
Web Applications No Comments

It’s been a while since WordPress implemented revisions for posts and pages. Being able to revert a post or page to a previous state is a useful feature. However, I recently realized that WP creates a revision of the content every time it is saved, but there is no upper limit for the number of…

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