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May21

How To Modify your hosts file

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Modifying your hosts file enables you to override the DNS for a domain, on that particular machine. This is useful when you want to test your site without the test link, prior to going live with SSL; verify that an alias site works, prior to DNS changes; and for other DNS-related reasons. Modifying your hosts file causes your local machine to look directly at the IP address specified. To modify the hosts file, you add two entries to the file that contains the IP address that you want the site to resolve to and the address. Adding the following two lines, for example, point www.domain.com and domain.com to our current PHP5-ITK (“Refreshed” PHP5) cluster: 69.175.79.218 domain.com www.domain.com The sections in this article provide instructions for locating and editing the hosts file on the following operating systems: Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Vista Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP Linux Mac OS X 10.0 through 10.1.5 Mac OS X 10.6 through 10.12 After you add the domain information and save the file, your system begins resolving to the specified IP address. After testing is finished, remove these entries. Windows Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows […]

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Jul15

Alternative Ways to Speed up Your Word Press Website

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A couple of months ago, a conducted an experiment to see how faster I could make at least one of my websites within two hours of my daily work schedule. After a handful installation of WordPress plugins while also fixing some other minute errors, I successfully improved the loading speed of the website from 1.61 seconds to a maximum 583 milliseconds. That is a good 70.39 percent perfection without necessarily making some visual changes in the website. Based on Akmai’s recent study, at least 47 percent of visitors expect a website page to load within two seconds and at least 57 percent of all visitors will leave a website page that takes more than three seconds just to load. From the study, more case studies have continually confirmed that the time taken to load pages on a website largely affects sales. Back in 2006, Amazon confirmed that a 100-millisecond increment in a loading speed of a page translates to a one percent in its actual revenue. Within a few years later, Google announce through a blog post that their algorithm takes into account the speed of a page when conducting website rankings. Mentioned below are a few nippy fixes that […]

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