How to handle time consuming PHP scripts
Some times you might have to write PHP scripts that can take a long time to finish.
For example create/recover backups, install CMS demos, parse large amounts of data etc...
To make sure your scripts will work as expected
JPEG optimization tools benchmark
Intro
I have a web project that hosts more than 15.000 images of various sizes from 300kb up to 10MB.
In total these images take about 8GB of space. These images are served from a small VPS with 365MB
Nginx Load Balancing Basics
Nginx is a powerful high performance web server with a lot of features that can help high load projects to overcome their problems.
Here you can see a particular feature of Nginx that allows you to load balance the traffic