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How to optimize the load time of initial connection and SSL handshake phase of a web page on a 3G network?
Initial Connection
You will find that the initial connection includes negotiating the SSL, so since the handshake is high, its a good indicator that something is seriously wrong with the way you have ...
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10 megabyte gzip limit in AWS Cloudfront?
This is a design limitation:
The file size must be between 1,000 and 10,000,000 bytes.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/ServingCompressedFiles.html
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How to optimize the load time of initial connection and SSL handshake phase of a web page on a 3G network?
Reading the title of your question, there are two things you can do to speed up the initial connection and SSL/TLS handshake. These work for any connection, not just 3G, so you should use these as ...
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Can I transfer a domain out of Route 53 (AWS) where it was purchased?
Yes, you can completely divorce yourself from AWS. I am unclear where you read that a domain name "always belongs to the original registrar where you bought your domain." - This is largely ...
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Does Amazon's RDS Multi-AZ deployment cost twice as much as the normal cost of a single instance?
Amazon's RDS pricing page has two sections. One for Single-AZ Deployment and one for Multi-AZ Deployment.
Yes, Multi-AZ is about twice the price of Single-AZ. For example I see:
db.t2.micro ...
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HTTP2 is enabled and working, but PHP $_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'] still says "HTTP/1.1"
This has to do with how Cloudflare connects to servers. Although it does serve the client via HTTP2 (or HTTP3), it still connects to the server itself via HTTP1.1.
Cloudflare only uses HTTP/1.x ...
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Can I transfer a domain out of Route 53 (AWS) where it was purchased?
AWS Route 53 is a domain registrar[1], a company that is hooked into the greater domain name system and has a license to sell domain names to their customers and hold them in the customer's name.
To ...
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Cannot forward root domain managed by Google Domains to AWS Load Balancer
This is a limitation in the fundamental design of DNS itself. Adding a CNAME at the apex of a domain is essentially invalid because it leads to an illogical set of consequences.
This is why Route 53 ...
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PHP doesn't work on Amazon AWS S3 for email contact form
S3 web site hosting is strictly for static content. Nothing stored in S3 is executable by S3, such as PHP scripts.
This is by design, and not a configuration issue with your site.
You can host a ...
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IllegalLocationConstraintException on CloudFront (with S3)
My issue was because my CloudFront origin was not in us-east, and when you auto-select your bucket's origin in CloudFront, it doesn't add the location prefix to the url. So make sure you add your s3 ...
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How can I mask an AWS site with a domain registered with godaddy?
Domain "masking" typically involves loading a website from another domain within an iframe (and if I remember correctly, this is how GoDaddy's masking feature works). But if the target ...
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How can I mask an AWS site with a domain registered with godaddy?
As best I've ever been able to tell thus "url/domain masking" is a made-up term used by a few web providers - They are nothing more then frames or iframes. From a technical POV there is no ...
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What are the benefits of requiring HTTPS between AWS CloudFront and the origin server?
If an attacker is able to put themselves between your origin server and CloudFront edge location - it won't be so difficult for the attacker to capture your HTTP traffic and extract your information. ...
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Do I need two different site profiles in Google Webmasters Tools for www and non-www?
In the case where you have both www and non-www verions of the site readily available (i.e, you are not using 301 redirects from www to non-www or vice versa), yes, both profiles should be created in ...
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk - Wordpress keeps resetting plugins and themes
Amazon has instructions for deploying WordPress on Elastic Beanstalk. The part that will prevent your problem is the section "Enable WordPress to Store Assets in Amazon S3".
You have to install ...
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Apache not working on AWS Linux after reboot - 301 Response code
I figured out the issue. When an AWS instance is rebooted, the DNS address changes. As I am using Wordpress, I need to update the siteurl and home url in the MySQL Database for the wordpress site to ...
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Route 53 on AWS, Whats stopping me from using someone elses domain?
I was in the position to try this. I have two AWS accounts: one for personal use and one for work. My work account has several domains using Route 53, including some typo redirects that nobody is ...
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Understanding of complete stack
What you are missing is that the components of the stack are somewhat abstract concepts, so the delineations are not necessarily clean, on the server side.
Web servers typically sit in front of ...
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Why am I getting bot hits from compute-1.amazonaws.com?
These look to me like bots/crawlers running on EC2 instances, rather than anything to do with Cloudfront. AWS publish a list of IP ranges used by Cloudfront here : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/...
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Importance of "List-Unsubscribe" header in bulk email
(NB: Since I haven't gotten any answers to my question, I'll try to answer it myself -- though based only on my own experience. If others have more knowledge/more experience, I'd still love to hear ...
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Alternative to SSL certificate?
You can use a free SSL certificate.
The linode community, (mostly affiliates who make support videos or blogs and offer a coupon for starting linode account), seems to have the best help in setting up ...
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Website on Amazon EC2 and domain hosted by GoDaddy
You need to get an Elastic IP Address and associate it with your EC2 instance. Then you can point your domain to that IP address. You can do this without using Route 53.
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AWS, WordPress and URL issue
Do you have access to ftp .... If so I will suggest you to delete all files and Important Delete .htaccess and then reinstall Wordpress with your theme .... I had this kind of problem and .htaccess ...
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Is it possible to show AWS CloudWatch metrics graphs on your own dashboard webpage?
This post describes the exact steps (official AWS documentation) to do this:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/building-an-amazon-cloudwatch-dashboard-outside-of-the-aws-management-console/
You'll ...
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AWS EBS Tomcat instance being hacked
* THREAD TAKEN TO AWS FORUMS *
http://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=227061&tstart=0
* THREAD TAKEN TO AWS FORUMS *
I had the same problem last week:
My amazon server was somehow ...
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How to setup CloudFlare Origin CA with a wordpress server hosted on Amazon AWS?
The AWS Certificate Manager product does not support third party certificates so you will need to import the CloudFlare certificate from within the AWS Identity and Access Management product, where ...
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Email messages sent from AWS EC2 are getting marked as spam
Let's go through the individual issues shown...
Dynamic IP
When setting up something like an email server you need to ensure to attach an elastic IP address to the EC2 instance as this remains ...
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Can I use Route 53 with Amazon AWS to mask a subdomain?
Masking, no.
Redirecting, yes, with help from S3.
You can create an empty S3 bucket named abc.example.com, configured to redirect all requests to another host, xyz.example.org. Configure an A ...
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How to connect a Freenom domain name to my Amazon ec2 instance?
Freenom has an FAQ that addresses how to set up DNS:
Usage: Works like any other domain name, use URL Forwarding, free Freenom DNS Service or your own DNS (Name Servers).
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Freenom DNS Service: for ...
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