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About Virtualization, VDI, SBC, Application Compatibility and anything else I feel like
When I started this blog in 2007 (wow that’s almost 10 years ago) I went for a cheap web hoster with a reasonable performance to host it.
In the beginning performance was acceptable but over the years it has degraded and of course user experience standards have changed.
I decided it was time to do something about it so I’ve moved the blog from a shared platform to my own server.
This server is running on optimized flash storage where most writes are DeDuplicated and never actually hits the flash disks:
It was a fun experience to optimize the webserver (NGINX) and WordPress for performance resulting in a PageSpeed index of 93:
For the people with eye for detail: there are still improvements to be made for Mobile.
I also decided to implement SSL and move over to SSL only fronted by Citrix Netscaler (with http to https redirection).
I had a lot of fun, frustations and learning on this journey so I hope this makes your stay at this blog more pleasant.
I am planning a write up to share these experience but the work isn’t finished yet so you may notice some outtages as I continue to optimize and improve!
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The improvement also means 404 – Not Found on just about all downloads!
Oops, good find! I’ll have a look at it…
Sadly 404 on all downloads!
Should be fixed now, thanks again for reporting!
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