April 19, 2017

403 Forbidden Error – Causes and Fixes

Linux General,

You spend months, working day in and out coding your website and it is finally time to test it. You type the URL of the website in a browser and hit enter, only to be slapped back with a 403 Forbidden error. This will be very frustrating for a web designer. 403 Forbidden error is…

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April 7, 2017

Five ways to optimize your Nginx server

Server Management,

Nginx is an open-source HTTP(web) server and reverse proxy, and an IMAP/POP3 proxy server (email server). It was developed to tackle the C10K problem that web servers in use at the time, which was largely Apache, were facing. C10K is simply a numeronym that stands for concurrently handling 10000 connections. Nginx was designed with the…

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