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How To: Configure Nginx As A Reverse Proxy

June 8, 2009
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I previously wrote about why page load times are important and outlined a couple of ways you could improve your web servers performance with regards to page load time. One of the ways I mentioned was to use nginx as a reverse proxy to serve all of your static files while letting Apache handle all [...]

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Why Page Load Times Are Important

June 6, 2009
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Recently, Google announced they were open sourcing one of their internal tools called Page Speed.  Page Speed can be used in conjunction with the Firefox plugin Firebug (install Firebug then install Page Speed).  The tool will analyze any web page and provide useful information and feedback that you can use to help improve the pages [...]

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