Nginx is known for its performance and leading in top 10K and 100K sites. Nginx is an open source web server, and it’s fantastic. It integrates well with many backends, application servers. If you are working on Nginx, then you might be aware of Nginx Plus, a commercial version of Nginx. Nginx Plus got more features than Nginx (as you can guess). Ex: Session persistence to ensure requests are routed to same upstream server High-availability clustering to avoid single point of failures (SPOF) Active health checks to stop sending request to faulty servers Discover services using DNS A full-featured load balancer More control on cache Inbuilt monitoring for debugging, resources utilization, troubleshooting Single sign-on WAF dynamic module Bandwidth controls for Mp4 streaming and many more…...

Node.js is an excellent JavaScript runtime environment, which you can use to serve entire web assets (static+dynamic) from it. If you are working on a small, experimental project then probably it’s ok, however, if response time is concerned then you must consider using a web server like Nginx in front of Node.js to serve static files. Actually, not just to serve static files but also from a security point of view you should consider Nginx....

If you are managing production environment or payment related application, then you will also be asked by security/penetration testing team to implement necessary HTTP header to comply with PCI-DSS security standard. Having secure header instruct browser to do or not to do certain things to prevent certain security attack. Most of you might be using a web server like Apache, Nginx, IIS in front of Tomcat so you may implement the headers directly in web server....

SSL Certificate is mandatory for any transactional services based business website on complying with PCI DSS. It secures the data transmitted from the client to the server. Having SSL/TLS (HTTPS) to your website also helps you to boost ranking in Google Search. Usually, SSL cert costs more than $200; however, if you need a certificate for a non-production environment where data transaction is not critical, you may try FREE SSL by Let’s Encrypt....

But now it has serious competition! Unlike other database comparisons, the MySQL vs. MariaDB one has minimal real, objective merit. They’re almost the same (and a while back, were the same!), have the same directory structures and syntax, and same performance. Yes, after the release 10 of MariaDB, things started diverging faster, but even the command to run MariaDB is called mysql! So, while you’re here to learn how to migrate from MySQL to MariaDB, I think it’s going to be very interesting to learn where this sudden competitor sprang up from....

I selected DigitalOcean for BestFlare, and while uploading the WordPress theme, I got request entity too large error. Are you in the same situation? Error, which I got: Let’s find out how large was requested entity. Login to Nginx server Go to the error file log location. The default location is: View the file and look for the error, you should see something like “client intended to send too large body....