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Amazon AWS
- Amazon ELB and multi-domain SAN/SSL Setup
- Auto Scaling
- Change Instance Type in AutoScaling
Backup
- Duplicity + Amazon S3
Benchmark
- apachebench
- httperf
- Siege
CDN
- Amazon Cloudfront CDN with W3 Total Cache WordPress
- CDN.NET Configuration with W3 Total Cache Wordpress
- CDN77 Configuration with W3 Total Cache WordPress
Composer and WordPress
- Getting Started
- Git and File-System Layout (non-default setup)
- Version Constraints
- Managing Themes and Plugins (for entire WordPress site)
- Updating Themes and Plugins (for entire WordPress site)
- Adding Composer Support to Your Own Themes and Plugins (for developers)
- Using Composer to Manage Own Theme/Plugin Dependencies (for developers)
Docker and WordPress [WIP]
- Docker Compose
- Kubernetes
  - WordPress with Kubernetes using Minikube and Helm on localhost (MacOS)
Git
- Git – Resolve Merge Conflicts
- First time Git setup
- Forking the Git
- Mandatory stages in Git
Gitlab
- Gitlab-CE
- gitlab-ci-multi-runner
KVM
- Convert qcow2 to raw format
- Enable virtio for existing VM's
Mac
- Brew'ing PHP, MySQL & Nginx on Mac OS X
Monitoring
- Latest Monit setup on Ubuntu
- NewRelic Setup for Ubuntu Server with PHP, FPM, Nginx and MySQL
node.js
- Installing ghost with nginx proxy-cache
- Latest node.js & npm installation on Ubuntu 12.04
Plesk
- List Mailboxes Storage and Passwords
Redis
Standards
- PHP
  - Code Sniffer
Vagrant
wpcli
- Finding a faulty plugin
- wp profile command
Linux
- Assigning Multiple IP Addresses to Single LAN Card
- Disable IPv6 on Ubuntu 12.04
- dsh – distributed shell
- fdupes – find & replace duplicate files with hardlinks
- GPG Keys Cheatsheet
- Increase "Open Files Limit"
- kill all php, nginx, mysql or any kind of processes
- Passwordless Authentication for SSH
- Screen
- search replace in multiple files useing grep xargs sed
- Setup sftp
- sysctl.conf
- Timezone Sync
- Using Google Public DNS on Ubuntu Server
- Using openssl to match private key, cerificate and CSR
- Configure Postfix to Use Gmail SMTP on Ubuntu
- Logrotate Example for Custom Logs
- PHP 5.5, MySQL, Postfix, Nginx and WordPress on Ubuntu
- Serverdensity
- Upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04
- Using find and sed to replace strings in multiple files
- Webmin
Apache – Turn On/Off Directory Listing
Enabling FastCGI on MediaTemple
Manage SVN Users with htpasswd
Mysql
- .my.cnf – mysql user & password
- Analyse slow-query-log using Anemometer
- Improving MySQL Query Cache
- MySQL Query Profiling
- Reset MySQL root password
- tuning-primer.sh – an alternative for mysqltuner
- Using MariaDB 10
- Install/Upgrade to MySQL 5.6 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Change WordPress Domain Name
- Character Sets and Collations
- Enable innodb_file_per_table
- Enable Remote Access (Grant)
- Installing Percona Toolkit
- Using tmpfs for temporary folder creation
- YARPP and InnoDB
- Convert MyISAM to InnoDB
- Using tmpfs for mysqldump & mysqlimport
- Convert from INNODB to MYISAM
- Analyse slow-query-log using mysqldumpslow & pt-query-digest
- mysqlcheck with cron to optimize automatically
- Using MySQLTuner to Optimize MySQL configuration
Emails
- Checking FQDN, Reverse-DNS/PTR, MX record
- Clients
  - Apple Mail
  - Mozilla Thunderbird
- DKIM with Postfix
- Postfix Queue Management
- RoundCube
  - Forwarding all mails to other email id
- Server Setup
- Setup OpenDKIM
- SPF Records
- swaks – SMTP test tool
- Using larch for mail transfer between imap/gmail servers
- Debugging Postfix Config, Mail Logs & more
- Increasing Attachment Size in Posfix
Nginx
- Adding $upstream_cache_status in HTTP Response Headers
- Amazon Elastic Load Balancer and Forwarding Real-IP Nginx
- Block wp-login.php bruteforce attack
- Configuring HTTP/2 Server Push
- Enable gzip compression
- fail2ban
- Filter query string for Redis-Nginx cache
- Let's Encrypt with EasyEngine
- Nginx's Open file cache
- Serving fonts with correct mime types
- SSL – PCI compliance and performance optimization
- Troubleshooting
  - Error: pcre_compile() failed: unrecognized character after
  - [emerg]: bind() to 0.0.0.0:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
- Tweaking fastcgi-buffers
- Using $upstream_cache_status in access.log
- Using Pagespeed
- Weak Diffie Hellman Logjam Attack Fix
- Website access restriction using nginx
- Enable Nginx Status Page
- Forwarding Visitor's Real-IP + Nginx Proxy/Fastcgi backend correctly
- Parsing access.log and error.logs using linux commands
- Debugging Nginx Configuration
- Nginx config for www to non-www and non-www to www redirection
- Optimizing Nginx Configuration
- Rewrite Rules for vBulletin SEO-friendly permalinks
PHP
- Directly connect to PHP-FPM
- Generating core-dump for php5-fpm
- GeoIP
- Having php5 and php7 on same system.
- Install Xdebug and configure it with webgrind
- Installation of PHP Code Review Tools
- memcache
- PHP's Zend Opcache Config & Web Viewer
- Setting Sqlite support with PHP
- Using HHVM with PHP-FPM Fallback
- Using Redis for PHP Sessions on Ubuntu Server
- Installing PhpMyAdmin Quickly
- Moving PHP's session storage to tmpfs
- Install Xdebug and configure it with Netbeans
- Nginx – Enable PHP-FPM Status Page
- PHP-FPM: Socket vs TCP/IP and sysctl tweaking
- APC Cache Optimization & Monitoring Using Web Interface
- Checking if PHP/WordPress can send mails
- Debugging PHP Scripts Using slow_log and more
- Increase file upload size limit in PHP-Nginx
- Increase PHP script execution time with Nginx
ActiveCollab with Nginx + APC Cache
WordPress
- Performance Optimization
- Remove Query string of css/js files
- Setup ElasticSearch with ElasticPress
- Using Redis for WordPress Object-Cache
- WooCommerce Window Shopping Caching Technique
- Moving WordPress To New Server (Faster)
- Better wp-cron using linux's crontab
- 404 error- Page not Found!!!
- Debugging WordPress with Nginx

Plesk

We do not use or recommend plesk but this section lists some notes about plesk server which comes handy during dealing with them.

List Mailboxes Storage and Passwords