Varnish is an excellent Web accelerator that can be made to proxy requests in and out of a cluster of somewhat more fully fledged Web servers like Apache or Litespeed. It has some great features like its compiled language, called VCL, and C-like programming API. Large vBulletin deployments tend to be heavy on CPU and [...]
If you receive one of the following errors, it’s very possible the Apache process is listening on port 443 but is not responding using the SSL protocol routines. In brief it is a protocol mismatch. Here’s a list of possible errors: Firefox error: SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length Apache error [...]
suPHP is a module that enhances overall server security. It forces the system to execute PHP scripts with user privileges as opposed to Web server privileges. suPHP is a good security measure especially when you expect to host multiple unrelated websites or hosting accounts. It keeps rotten apples away from the good ones! Keep in [...]
