Upgrading forced a read of a configuration file that had been copied forward through three servers and four PHP versions. The cipher list is the line worth deleting…
A maintenance page that requires the application to be running is not a maintenance page. Serving it from the web server means it works when PHP is stopped,…
Enabling QUIC on the edge terminator changes the client leg and nothing else, which is worth being clear about before reading a benchmark. Thirty milliseconds on the p75…
Two services behind one hostname, with a routing table that somebody wanted to solve with a gateway product. A gateway earns its place when routing is dynamic, when…
Brotli compresses better and costs more CPU, and whether that is worth it depends on a number nobody measures. The high compression levels are for static assets compressed…
Serving a static file involves a stat and an open on every request, which is invisible until the file count is large and the disk is network-backed. Caching…