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zippykid

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About zippykid

tongue tied and twisted, just an earthbound misfit.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #26707290

    Ramen is also one of the easiest things to traffic and trade with in prison. You can easily transport 10 - 15 packs of ramen on your person. Other items are bulkier and thus more v…

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    Can we please stop measuring page load time only?

    http://www.speedawarenessmonth.com/moving-past-page-load-time/

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    Comment #5783991

    We've already fixed it.

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    Comment #5783851

    Thanks for pointing this out, we're working to fix this now.

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    Comment #5616934

    Thanks Josh, I'll update them tomorrow/saturday. Did you create an issue by any chance?

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    Comment #5610570

    Druiid, do you mind testing our instructions here? http://github.com/zippykid/nginx/ ?

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    Comment #5609710

    Jeremy, image optimization/compression, javascript minification/combination etc are some of the benefits we've tested and had tremendous success with.

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    Results of ngx_pagespeed alpha on production WordPress sites

    Here are some interesting results of the Nginx Pagespeed module alpha on production WordPress sites. https://www.zippykid.com/2013/04/23/partnership-with-google-to-deliver-fast-wor…

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    Comment #5213568

    Any background on what the difference is between this, and the other op code caches already on the market?

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    Guidelines for hosting a high traffic WordPress site

    The following rules shouldn't just be applied by ZippyKid, if you run a high traffic website, you should invest in a code audit, even if you host elsewhere. https://www.zippykid.co…

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    Debugging WordPress 101

    Here's our take on some basic things one can do, to debug WordPress sites. https://www.zippykid.com/2013/01/07/how-to-debug-wordpress-themes-and-plugins/

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    Comment #4993840

    nroach, I can't speak for others. But I've struggled with the whole 'marketing a product' thing. It's easy for me to make a good product, it's harder for me to tell people about it…

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    Comment #4693106

    Thanks for mentioning the email Jacque. And you're correct, currently we don't handle multi site installs due to some issues with MU and our clusters.

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    Comment #4486196

    Thanks Harper. As you can tell, your ideas about 2-factor are high on our list already :)

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    Comment #4481804

    lots of hiccups when we first started, which is why it took so long to get started. The key is learning how to live within the confines of the system, and how to leverage it.

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    How to use the NextGen Openstack API at Rackspace

    http://www.zippykid.com/2012/08/19/how-to-connect-to-the-rackspace-nextgen-cloud-via-the-command-line/ This is how we're using it, how do others use it?

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    Github flow in WordPress projects using GitHub and DeployHQ

    http://zippykid.com/2012/05/06/how-to-update-your-wordpress-site-automatically-using-github-and-deployhq/ I'm curious what other methods people are using for projects that depend o…

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    Comment #3775964

    most of the caching plugins for WordPress will generate static html files, or static html stored in memcached, which can further be written to disk using nginx' fastcgi_cache, or s…

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    Comment #3775958

    Great post, the 10 million hits is a bit misleading, WordPress is a cookie monster, so your default configuration of Varnish is going to have issues, when people start adding comme…

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    Interesting dialogue between a "Big" SEO firm and a local SEO firm

    http://www.pearanalytics.com/blog/2011/why-you-should-avoid-local-coms-seo-services/ This is interesting, and may explain why people have a bad feeling about SEO/SEM in general. I'…

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    Why is a republican from Texas sponsoring an unChristian, unAmerican bill?

    http://zippykid.com/2011/11/17/why-is-a-republican-senator-sponsoring-an-unchristian-unamerican-bill/