There's far more to the world of Web servers than just Apache and IIS. While lightweight Web servers have much in common, there's also variation within the category. Most are written in C, but several other implementation languages have proven successful among the servers with which I've experimented, including Erlang, Java, Lisp, Lua, Perl, Python, and Tcl. If there's a language you favor, you can probably find a lightweight Web server here coded for your convenience. survey the possibilities and see how they apply to you.
The not so complete consensus on the internet is that a web page needs to load in around 4 seconds or less before you can start to lose visitors. Some visitors will sit and wait no matter how long the site takes to load, but on average if your pages are climbing past that 4 second mark then you could be losing impatient visitors.
Search is an important part of any website, and a lacking search functionality will mean that your visitors won't find what they're looking for, never a good thing. If you're a WordPress user, you know what it is like, because WordPress, like so many other online publishing platforms, just can't be as good as Google is. However, there are solutions. You can swap your search solution with something else, be it Google Co-Op, or Lijit. In this tutorial, we'll take a look at Lijit, which will let you search across several sites, as well as multiple social webapps out there.
Ever want to change the naming scheme of your files on your website but are afraid to lose your PR and search engine rankings? Well there's a way to do just this using 301 Redirect.