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Creating a Polite PHP Web Crawler: Checking robots.txt
May 31, 2018 | By David Selden-TreimanIn this tutorial, we create a PHP website spider that uses the robots.txt file to know which pages we're allowed to download. We continue from our previous tutorials to create a robust web spider and expand on it to check for download crawling permissions.
Creating a Simple PHP Web Crawler
May 24, 2018 | By David Selden-TreimanLooking to download a site or multiple webpages? Interested in examining all of the titles and descriptions for a site? We created a quick tutorial on building a script to do this in PHP. Learn how to download webpages and follow links to download an entire website.
Downloading a Webpage using PHP and cURL
May 24, 2018 | By David Selden-TreimanLooking to automatically download webpages? Here's how to download a page using PHP and cURL.
Load Times Under 2s: WordPress Speed Improvements
May 6, 2018 | By David Selden-TreimanHow I lowered my website load times below 2 seconds... a step-by-step tutorial including WordPress, Nginx, Apache, Redis, MySQL, PHP7
Load Times Under 2s: Adding a WordPress Site
May 6, 2018 | By David Selden-TreimanWith our current setup, you should be able to add as many sites as you want to hosted on your • Read More »
Load Times Under 2s: Configuring Nginx
May 6, 2018 | By David Selden-TreimanThis is part 8 of a 10 part tutorial on setting up and configuring Nginx as a reverse proxy with • Read More »
Load Times Under 2s: Installing Nginx
May 6, 2018 | By David Selden-TreimanNext up we need to compile and install nginx. We can’t simply run the yum command because we’re going to • Read More »
Load Times Under 2s: FTP & DNS
May 6, 2018 | By David Selden-TreimanInstalling an FTP server Next we’re going to want to install an FTP server so you can upload files. To • Read More »
Load Times Under 2s: SSL Certificate & Apache Configuration
May 6, 2018 | By David Selden-TreimanCreating a Self-Signed SSL Certificate Next we need to create a self-signed SSL certificate. This is very useful for testing • Read More »
Load Times Under 2s: PHPMyAdmin & Redis
May 6, 2018 | By David Selden-TreimanInstalling PHPMyAdmin Next, we need to install phpmyadmin. The easiest way I have found to do this is to simply • Read More »