Free Post nginx Customising Server header over HTTP/2 in NginX I recently noticed that my website was returning the value 'nginx' in my Server header which was odd because I build NginX form source and specifically change the value. It...
Free Post Let's Encrypt Let's Encrypt with DNS Round-Robin I was having a period of really high load on securityheaders.io earlier and whilst I looked into it and sorted out the root cause I wanted to throw some...
Free Post CSP CSP Nonce support in Nginx Content Security Policy is an incredibly powerful security feature but in some circumstances it can be a little difficult to deploy. Removing inline scripts or styles often comes up as...
Free Post nginx Doing the ChaCha with Nginx ChaCha20-Poly1305 is the combination of a new cipher, ChaCha20, and a new MAC, Poly1305, to give us a new AEAD cipher suite. AEADs will be the only option that will...
Free Post nginx Brotli Compression Following a few performance related blogs recently this one is following a similar trend and is going to look at Brotli compression. It was announced by Google in September 2015 and it claims to offer 20%-26% better compression than existing compression algorithms. That's...
Free Post nginx Caching Ghost with Nginx The performance of my site has always been a consideration, the faster your site, the better the browsing experience. I've made various changes in the past to try and boost...
Free Post nginx Monitoring Server and Application Health with New Relic As the number of servers you manage increases, keeping an eye on them all can become a bit of a task in itself. I've used Munin for quite some time...
Free Post HTTP/2 Monitoring HTTP/2 usage in the wild Having recently enabled HTTP/2 support on my blog, I was curious to see just how many of my visitors would be using the new protocol. I'm going to demonstrate...
Free Post HTTP/2 Supporting HTTP/2 with NginX My blog now features HTTP/2 support thanks to the latest version of NginX. I'm going to walk through how to build the latest version of NginX and enable HTTP/2 support on your own server. Install the latest version At the time of...
Free Post nginx PageSpeed - Performance optimisation made easy PageSpeed is an open-source webserver module that is designed specifically to improve the performance of your site without having to make any changes to your content or workflow. By implementing a whole host of best practises, I saw a notable improvement in page load...
