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HotlinkBlocker 1.0.0.63 Released

New build of HotlinkBlocker acquired one important feature: from now on you may exclude client IP address from the process of signature generation.

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Introduction to mod_gzip

Every day millions of web-servers around the world receive billions of bytes of network traffic. Each year the speed of Internet connections increases. Hosting providers offer perfect tariffs. It seems the mankind is going to forget about traffic saving problem … Continue reading

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Example of mod_cache application

In the previous articles we told you what cache is and how it works in Helicon Ape. Now it’s time to use obtained knowledge in practice. Today we gonna apply caching for PHP application called qdig that helps organize images … Continue reading

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Improvements in Helicon Ape release version

For those still hesitating whether to try release version of Helicon Ape or not we want to outline the mian differences between release and beta. So, release (unlike beta) includes: mod_cache module to reduce traffic by caching HTTP content mod_gzip … Continue reading

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Helicon Ape released!

It has happened! Helicon Ape has been released and is now available for download and purchase!

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How mod_cache works?

Helicon Ape release (coming very-very soon) will contain mod_cache module. And as we promised in our previous article we are now giving you more thorough description of mod_cache operation.

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Web Caching: what is it?

What is that and what’s it for? Web cache is a vital instrument to build lightning-fast web apps. Web cache stores HTTP responses that may be provided to the user without making a request to the server, i.e. no ASP/PHP … Continue reading

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Tuning WordPress with Helicon Ape on IIS7 (permalinks, browser/server caching, compression)

WordPress is a highly popular and rapidly growing open source CMS providing powerful blog-designing facilities. Accounting for its popularity we decided to write an article in which we’ll show how to optimize, speed up, prettify WordPress operation using Helicon Ape. So, … Continue reading

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Helicon Ape 1.0.0.12 – firm step ahead!

Pretty much time has elapsed since the release of the first public build of Helicon Ape (1.0.0.10). We’ve made every effort to spend this time as efficiently as possible to make you a small Christmas gift. And here it is … Continue reading

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URL-rewriting basics and map-files application

Lack of understanding of basic URL-rewriting concepts often leads to the problems with rules-writing. So we decided to give a brief and simple explanation of some general concepts. URL-rewriting allows to substitute real (often ugly) URLs with pretty ones and … Continue reading

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