server configuration

SSL. It’s the word of the year, it would seem, ever since Google’s late 2014 announcement that installing an SSL certificate on your website would effect rankings in their search engine algorithm. And all for the better, as I’ve written about before: traditional SEO is dead and things are finally starting to get exciting again […]

FTP is a fascinating technology, if only because its history is so rife with ambiguity. The modern FTP protocol (RFC 959) was actually invented way back in 1985, a full ten years before its more-famous cousin HTTP (1.0) was launched in 1996. Over the past few decades, however, HTTP began evolving much faster than FTP […]

Up until a few years ago, installing WordPress on an Nginx server still tended to be a little bit janky. In the early days, many websites were forced to deal with ugly permalink schemes that included the “/index.php/” root in every single link. Even after that hurdle was eliminated, other issues existed such as poor […]