Varnish is a lightweight HTTP Accelerator/Reverse Proxy for Linux. The idea is that Varnish sits in front of the http server, saving what it can to memory. When a page is requested, Varnish will check
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Linux was a word I once feared. Only the most elite of computer nerds would dare use such an operating system. Thanks to advances in modern in Linux distributions and the internet in general, it
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RSA keys not only provide more robust authentication than passwords- a password can be broken with time, luck and/or a hypothetical hammer- but can also make life a lot easier by removing the need to
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