So I ran into this problem. No matter what I did my WordPress installation displayed a stupid error that read as follows:

Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.

Fig.01: How to Fix Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance Error in WordPress

WordPress has smileys or so-called emojis added in version 4.2+. It added emoji character using javascript and other junk. It slows down the site for no real reason, and I do not use it at all. Here is how to remove unnecessary HTML and emoji URL calls to every page of your site and speed up your site.

Disable WordPress emoji

HTTP response status codes indicate whether a specific HTTP request has been successfully completed. However, I guess you know that. If you or your friend wanted a refresh course, check out this comic.

Also check out

1. HTTP status code using doggo
2. HTTP status code using kitten

Comic credit

• Taken from monkeyuser.com comics page.

HTTPS enables privacy and integrity by default. It is going to be next big thing. The internet’s standards bodies, web browsers, major tech companies, and the internet community of practice have all come to understand that HTTPS should be the baseline for all web traffic. Ultimately, the goal of the internet community is to establish encryption as the norm, and to phase out unencrypted connections. Investing in HTTPS makes it faster, cheaper, and easier for everyone.

Free SSL certificate for all

You can get your free ssl cert with Let’s Encrypt project. It is a certificate authority that launched on April 12, 2016 that provides free X.509 certificates for Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption. See how to configure and use Let’s Encrypt TLS on a Ubuntu or Debian Linux:

In this tutorial, I will explain how to use Let’s Encrypt to install a free SSL certificate for Nginx web server along with how to properly deploy Diffie-Hellman on your nginx server to get SSL labs A+ score.

So PHP 7 provides 2x faster performance and 50% better memory consumption than PHP version 5.6. How do you install PHP 7 on Ubuntu Linux version 14.04 LTS server? How do I install PHP 7 with PHP-FPM in along with Nginx web server or Lighttpd or Apache 2 server? How can I install PHP 7 on Debian 8.x or 7.x server? See

1. How to install PHP 7 on Debian Linux 8.6/7.x [jessie/wheezy]
2. How to install PHP 7 on Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS

Logstalgia (also known as ApachePong) is a very powerful and handy app. It is a website access log visualization tool. It is an extremely useful tool to give you look at your web server traffic. I often use this kind of software to justify and convince my clients and/or boss that we need more servers to handle traffic. It streams Apache / Lighttpd / Nginx web-server access logs as a pong-like battle between the web server and a never ending torrent of requests.

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