NFS, or Network File System, is a distributed filesystem protocol that allows you to mount remote directories on your server. This allows you to leverage storage space in a different location and to write to the same space from multiple servers easily. NFS works well for directories that will have to be accessed regularly.
In this guide, we’ll cover how to configure NFS mounts on an Ubuntu 14.04 server.
While managing your WordPress, you may sometimes want to edit the styling of some parts of your post or your site. Moreover, you want to edit the CSS or add custom CSS without modifying the theme’s source code. Let’s look at some ways to do that.
This tutorial will show you how to add custom slots to your WordPress theme so that you can drag and drop widgets to a location that is not yet defined by your theme.
GlusterFS, NFS and Samba are the most popular 3 ways to setup a network shared folder on Linux.
In this tutorial, we will learn how to setup a network shared folder using GlusterFS on Ubuntu Servers.
If you find your WordPress server running slow, before considering a hardware upgrade, try the following tweaks first.
If you host your website on a cloud service, you may find out that your traffic costs even more than the hardware (CPU, RAM, HDD). If that’s the case, check the following tips on how to optimize your traffic cost.
If you own a website and your traffic is growing, it’s time to look into using a CDN for your website. Here are 3 best free CDN services that you can use.
Most of the time, gzip compression will make your server perform better and more resource efficient. This tutorial will show you how to enable gzip compression for your nginx server.
If you want to check if any of your post is missing a featured image, the following plugin will add a column to your All posts listing page (wp-admin/edit.php) to show the posts’ featured images for your convenience.
If you are a heavy editor in WordPress, you may find out that most of the time, you just set the first image of your post to be the featured image. Here’s a quick and handy way to help you skip the tedious work and save some labor.