Sysadmins of the North (Page 77)

Create your own CDN using IIS Outbound Rules

Here's how to create a Content Delivery Network (CDN) using IIS outbound rewrite rules. Offload your static content and speed up your website with these tips. Offloading content is important for the performance of your website, because then content is downloaded in parallel and thus faster. A faster website attracts more visitors, is more user friendly, improves CTR and Google SEO.

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Bash: Grep through a large number of files - "Argument list too long"

The other day I was searching for a particular email file in an Maildir on one of our mail servers. Knowing only the From address, I thought I'd use grep. Unfortunately it failed and gave me an error: /bin/grep: Argument list too long. Here is how to overcome this grep error...

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WordPress CMS admin password reset

How to reset your WordPress password? If you've lost or forgotten your WordPress admin password, you can easily reset the password. Either use the following MySQL statement to reset your WordPress admin password, or change it through functions.php.

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